Krishna's Other Song: a New Look at the Uddhava Gita

Krishna's Other Song: A New Look at the Uddhava Gita examines the entire Uddhava Gita in relation to other Hindu scriptures, especially the Bhagavad Gita, and shares its teachings in light of interreligious understanding and nonsectarian spirituality. This edition's elaborate commentary, written by a prominent American scholar of Hindu studies, who is also a practitioner, opens up the text's esoteric teaching to a Western audience for the first time, adding context and relevance that make the book accessible and its teachings practicable for a Western readership. A foreword, written by promin.;Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Krishna's Instructions to Uddhava; 2. The Lesson of Pingala; 3. Detachment from All Things Material; 4. The Nature of Self-Centered Acts; 5. How to Know Whether One is Conditioned or Liberated; 6. What Lies beyond Renunciation and Knowledge?; 7. The Swan Incarnation (Hamsa Avatara) and the Sons of Brahma; 8. Lord Krishna's Explanation of Yoga: An Introduction; 9. The Limitations of Yogic Perfection; 10. The Qualities of the Lord; 11. The Varnashram System; 12. Varnashram Continued; 13. Perfect Spiritual Knowledge.