bhagavad gita book

[OmniYoga]

does the version of bhagavad gita book matter?

https://www.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Gita-Paperback-Bhaktivedanta-Swami-Prabhupada/dp/0892131349

I want to buy this version but in my native language, since is an old text it might contain unusual words and english is my not main language  ...

 

[Jkhv1]

I've read this version mate... I can't say I really enjoyed this. My path has been Self Inquiry, and Prabhupada focuses on bhakti (devotion to Krishna) which I can't really resonate much with. If you resonate more with non-duality, get the Bhagavad Gita but from a writer who has a non-dual commentary. 

I'm afraid that I don't know precisely what authors do have non-dual commentaries of the Bhagavad Gita, but I'm sure someone on this forum can help

[OmniYoga]

@Jkhv1 Oh shit ... , I guess I know what you mean, he probably adds his philosophy and ideology to it, in order to create cult group  from what I read in reviews "I have found reading this Gita is that the writer accepts those portions of the Shrutis (Veda, Upanishads, Gita, etc.) which helps to prove his ideology, and rejects the rest. He repeatedly says that his way is the only and the best way and all others are wrong."

good that I asked, I was almost about to purchase it ...

[Shanmugam]

On 3/9/2020 at 7:58 AM, OmniYoga said:

does the version of bhagavad gita book matter?

https://www.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Gita-Paperback-Bhaktivedanta-Swami-Prabhupada/dp/0892131349

I want to buy this version but in my native language, since is an old text it might contain unusual words and english is my not main language  ...

 

You have chosen Prabhupada's commentary... I wouldn't recommend that at all..  His commentary is more about accepting Krishna as the only God so that you can later live with Him after death.  It will sound more Abrahamic..

Go for the publications by Ramakrishna math. Here is one with three volumes: https://www.amazon.in/Bhagavad-Gita-3-Ranganathananda/dp/8175052198