Bhagavad Gita: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Bhagavad Gita, credited to Sir Edwin Arnold, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Bhagavad Gita, translated by Sir Edwin Arnold. The content of the text is a conversation between Krishna and Arjuna taking place on the battlefield of Kurukshetra just prior to the start of a climactic war. Responding to Arjuna's confusion and moral dilemma, Krishna explains to Arjuna his duties as a warrior and Prince and elaborates on a number of different Yogic and Vedantic philosophies, with examples and analogies. This has led to the Gita often being described as a concise guide to Hindu philosophy and also as a practical, self-contained guide to life. During the discourse, Krishna reveals his identity as the Supreme Being Himself (Bhagavan), blessing Arjuna with an awe-inspiring glimpse of His divine absolute form. (summary from wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Bhagavad Gita
• Author credits: Sir Edwin Arnold
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 2:54:53

Track guide

1. 00 - Intoductory Note — 3:04
2. 01 - The Distress of Arjuna — 9:41
3. 02 - Of Doctrines — 17:56
4. 03 - Virtue in Work — 9:00
5. 04 - Of the Religion of Knowledge — 9:43
6. 05 - The Book of Religion by Renouncing Fruit of Works — 7:36
7. 06 - Of Religion of Self Restraint — 9:58
8. 07 - Of Religion by Discernment — 6:30
9. 08 - Of Religion by Devotion to the One Supreme God — 5:52
10. 09 - Of Religion by the Kingly Knowledge and the Kingly Mystery — 9:38
11. 10 - Of Religion by the Heavenly Perfections — 10:10
12. 11 - Of the Manifesting of the One and Manifold — 20:39
13. 12 - Of the Religion of Faith — 5:00
14. 13 - Of Religion by Separation of Matter and Spirit — 7:47
15. 14 - Of Religion by Separation from the Qualities — 5:58
16. 15 - Of Religion by Attaining the Supreme — 6:22
17. 16 - Of the Separateness of the Divine and the Undivine — 5:55
18. 17 - Of Religion by the Threefold Kinds of Faith — 5:46
19. 18 - Of Religion by Deliverance and Renunciation — 18:28

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