indian philosophy perspectives on reality, knowledge and freedom 21.02.24

bina Gupta (author)

passage from book:

The Bhagwad Gita has acquired a place of incomparable honor in the religious and philosophical literature of India. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Bhagwad Gita is the most well-known and one of the most discussed Hindu texts. The fact that Samkara and Ramanuja, two important classical commentators of the Vedanta school, regarded the Gita as one of the three primary sources of the Vedanta tradition, provides an eloquent testimony to its importance. Scholars are not unanimous regarding the dates of the Gita; tradition, however, maintains that it was authored somewhere between the third and the first centuries BCE and is taken to be a part of the epic Mahäbharata. It is safe to say that it is post-Buddhistic because in it the references to the Buddha's views abound. The Gità expresses the quintessence of the Vedas and the Upanisads, and has been translated and commented upon by classical and modern scholars
in the East and the West alike.

research week 21-22

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