The Bhagavad Gita is the classic yoga scripture that needs little introduction.
It is one of the most essential books containing the foundations of yoga philosophy.
Broadly it covers Karma-yoga (chapters 1-6), Bhakti-yoga (chapters 7-12) and Jnana-yoga (chapters 13-18), and in detail each of its 18 chapters explain separate yogas, namely:
1) Arjuna-visada-yoga
2) Sankhya-yoga
3) Karma-yoga
4) Jnana-yoga.
5) Sannyasa-yoga
6) Dhyana-yoga
7) Vijnana-yoga
8) Taraka-brahma-yoga
9) Raja-guhya-yoga
10) Vibhuti-yoga
11) Visva-rupa-darsana-yoga
12) Bhakti-yoga
13) Prakrti-purusa-viveka-yoga
14) Guna-traya-vibhaga-yoga
15) Purusottama-yoga
16) Daivasura-sampad-vibhaga-yoga
17) Sraddha-traya-vibhaga-yoga
18) Moksa-yoga
Winthrop Sargeant's Sanskrit to English translation was first published in 1979 by Doubleday & Company, Inc. New York. Later editions were published by the State University of New York.
The copy below is the first edition.
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| Bhagavad Gita translated by Winthrop Sargeant |


