[Advaita-l] Gita translations

Vivek ammasfeet at icloud.com
Wed Jul 8 05:47:53 CDT 2015


Thanks for the reply,

I just read in the introduction of the Gita Shankara Bhasya by Gambhirananda that they generally followed the gitapress edition for the text and the commentary.

That is interesting to note. Still I see many difference. 



> On Jul 8, 2015, at 3:43 PM, Siva Senani Nori <sivasenani at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Translation by Swami Gambhirananda is according to Sankaracharya's Bhashya. Gita Press books are of very good quality, except their explanations of Gita, which do not follow one particular Acarya's commentary.
> 
> By all means go for the Swami's translation.
> 
> Regards
> N. Siva Senani
> 
> From: Vivek via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
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> Hari Om,
> 
> Speaking about translations and not commentaries. 
> 
> I have two translations of the Gita, one by Swami Gambhirananda (Shankara Bhasya by RK Math) and one from Gitapress and find the English translations very different. 
> 
> For the study of Vedanta, is one preferred?
> 
> Could someone elaborate on this?
> 
> Appreciated,
> Vivek. 
> 
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