Sri Ramanuja Gita Bhashya

by Swami Adidevananda

Sri Ramanuja's commentary on the Bhagavad Gita is not so widely known as that of Sri Sankara. It may be due to the fact that Sri Ramanuja came about three centuries after Sri Sankara. To have a comparatively full knowledge of Vedanta, a study of Sri Ramanuja's commentary on the Bhagavad Gita also is essential.

In Ramanuja's interpretation of Vedanta, devotion to personal God and His grace are stressed as the exclusive means for release from Samsara or the Cycle of births and deaths. It is for the benefit of such devotees that we have been induced to bring out this publication.

Table of Contents:

• List of Abbreviations
• Key to Transliteration and Pronunciation
• Meditation on the Gita
• The Gitartha-sangraha
• Introduction
• CHAPTER 1 - Arjuna's Spiritual Conversion Through Sorrow
• CHAPTER 2 - Communion through Knowledge
• CHAPTER 3 - Communion through Action
• CHAPTER 4 - Renunciation of Action in Knowledge
• CHAPTER 5 - Communion through Renunciation
• CHAPTER 6 - Communion Through Meditation
• CHAPTER 7 - Communion through Knowledge and Realisation
• CHAPTER 8 - The Way to Imperishable Brahman
• CHAPTER 9  - The Sovereign Science and Sovereign Secret
• CHAPTER 10 - Manifestations of Divine Glories
• CHAPTER 11 - The Vision of the Cosmic Form
• CHAPTER 12 - Communion through Loving Devotion
• CHAPTER 13 - Differentiation of the Known from the Knower
• CHAPTER 14 - Division According to the Three Gunas
• CHAPTER 15 - The Mystery of the All-pervading Person
• CHAPTER 16 - The Divine and the Demoniac Types
• CHAPTER 17 - The Three Aspects of Faith
• CHAPTER 18 - Liberation through Renunciation
• Appendix: Index to First Lines of Slokas

About the Author:

The translator of this text is Swami Adidevananda who was the President of Ramakrishna Math at Bangalore. He passed away before this publication of this translation. He has translated some other books of great importance, especially to Vaishnavas. Some of these are-Stotraratna and Yatindramatadeepika.