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Gita Resources for exploration and study


January 1, 2011

Over the years, I have come across a few good instances of Gita websites that I would gladly recommend to anyone as an electronic resource.
  1. Gita Guidance based on Swami Chinmayananda's Teachings. It has good links for specific topics addressed in the Gita that direct you to the relevant verses with a brief explanation. A minor complaint, I have is that none of the verses are in Devanagari. However, all the verse references are clearly indicated for the reader to refer to in their own copy.
  2. Gita Supersite: While currently, this site works mainly for IE users, there is a beta version under development that has unicode support and has more features. This site is great for those who want to review different commentaries / translations of the Bhagavad Gita and look at them side-by-side. They continue to add more languages and editions - definitely a must-visit site for those who want to study the Gita from the great masters, present and past, who have commented and translated the text.
  3. Journey to the Truth: Some years ago, Smt Darshnanaben Nanavaty had launched a DVD guide called, Journey to the Truth which I always felt was an excellent resource for the study of the Gita. Now, it appears that they have taken some of the material from the DVD and created a website. I particularly recommend it for the word glossary (to get to it, wait for the introductory flash movie to finish, then choose Main Menu and Glossary). It is an excellent combination of how the word is said, the meaning of the word, the word written in Samskritam along with the root where applicable. In specific instances the interpretation of the word based on Sankarabhashya is also provided as well as reference to one shloka in which the word occurs. Hopefully, they can update the site with references to all the shlokas in the Gita that reference the word in a similar context. 

Will post other resources as I come across these. 

Hari Om and Namaskar until the next post.
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