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The Bhagavad Gita
- A Walkthrough for Westerners
- Narrated by: Jack Hawley
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Classics
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Summary
The Bhagavad Gita has been called India's greatest contribution to the world. In this audio version of his classic book The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners, Jack Hawley makes its wisdom clear to Western seekers.
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- Mr. Nobody
- 13-04-13
SBG (Super Bhagavad Gita)
I arrived to this version of the Bhagavad Gita after listening to many other audiobooks of the book. Without doubt this version provides the deepest understanding of the Bhagavad Gita. Good sound quality of the recording done by the author, who obviously is passionate about the book.
Highly recommended.
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- Leigh
- 23-05-22
Magical and powerful
A magical and powerful read.
One I shall revisit often.
Thank you so much for sharing this with the world.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-05-22
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book is amazing but spoilt by narrator who was constantly sniffing causing distraction when trying listen.
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- tyto14
- 26-04-22
The Best Bhagavad-Gita translation
The Best Bhagavad-Gita translation
Jack has produced a superb translation that is easy to understand and comprehend. he doesn't use fancy terminology, only plain English to explain these great spiritual truths.
Jack's voice is also warm and kind as he reads his own book. Recommended 5*
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- Jack
- 04-06-21
An absolute must read
If there is one book that should be read and studied by anyone living in western society The Bhagavad Gita is it.
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- ms d.
- 05-03-21
My thoughts
narrator was fantastic, feeling and presence in his voice. This is very sacred and natural teachings , think it would affect anyone who read it, even just to try to live this way, it makes so much sense.
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- Donna Wood
- 18-11-20
Beautiful
Simply joyous to listen to, the journey through the Gita was an awakening into love
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- Gregory Garrett
- 01-11-19
A Timeless Classic
A must read, absorb and apply text for all serious seekers. A great love story upon a battlefield.
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- ms
- 12-09-16
brilliant way to hear the message
really well told, recommended by Eckhart Tolle and so worth listening to. my need was for this sort of translation and was prompted by a simple explanation by tolle of what chapter one is really about. thank you
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- Musical Truth
- 28-09-14
A great listen to a genuine voice.
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Absolutely. The Bhagavad Gita is an excellent story and contains some profound wisdom. It is striking how some of it is very similar to biblical proverbs and stories about Jesus too. I love that Mr Hawley has narrated this himself too. It is a testament to his passion for the subject matter and this comes across in the reading. The quality of the audio is not 100% but it is engaging and I found no issues with clarity or diction. The touch of reverb was a nice change too.
I would much rather this than yet another dry, compressed nauseating voice actor.
What did you like best about this story?
The way the dialogue between Arjuna and Krisna plays out echoed how much of my own thoughts and questions would evolve if I were playing the role of Arjuna.
Which character – as performed by Jack Hawley – was your favourite?
Arjuna.
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
To kill or not to kill - is that the question?
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- Metta Bhavana
- 27-05-13
A Walkingthrough, not enough Thinkingthrough...
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
It's good, but not great. The "translation" takes too many liberties... colloquializes too much.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Bhagavad Gita?
Sri Krishna's self-revelation to Arjuna.
What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?
I liked that the speaker was clear. However, I did not like the speaker's repetitive overemphasis.It made the delivery seem cloying. A professional reader should have been used.At various points the reader made Sri Krishna sound almost condescending. That is not at all a part of Sri Krishna's attitude.
Did The Bhagavad Gita inspire you to do anything?
The Gita is very inspiring, elevating. It prompts the reader to self-examination and improvement.
Any additional comments?
All in all the "translation" and delivery mar the grandeur, intellectual depth and expansive spirit of the original work.Though I think the author/reader made a noble attempt, with good intention.
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- Tammy
- 12-10-12
The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners
I really loved this. The author reads his own work here, and he does a very good job. He has a pleasant voice that seems suited to the material. It is not a literal translation word-for-word, more like a distillation in modern English and with the intent to explain the Bhagavad Gita to westerners in particular. He explains the concepts and some of the vocabulary, which I found helpful. There is a sort of soundtrack to the reading, which I did not find intrusive and which I actually thought added something to it - I liked it - but I think some people may find it distracting, so listen to a sample before you buy it. Overall the sound quality was pretty good; I heard papers rattle occasionally, but I became so interested in the material itself that I stopped noticing it if it continued throughout the book. I would recommend this work to anyone who is interested in learning about the Bhagavad Gita or in world religions and beliefs. As soon as I finsihed it, I started it again, because there is a lot to it, and I was fascinated. I wish I'd found this when it was first produced.
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- Constance
- 24-05-15
Great intro to the Gita but sleepy performance
I can 100% recommend the book as illuminating intro to the Gita .
However I will not listen to this book again as its audio (monotone reading and constant background noise/music) is not very appealing.
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- Thomas
- 07-07-17
get rid of the backgound noise
The Bhagavad Gita is one of the true classics, and I was so looking forward to this. However, the background noise of music that is poorly mixed relative to the message kept interfering with the narrator's voice.
The voice was weak enough that they should have gotten a professional narrator instead of hearing the author grate on. The mix though was so wildly inappropriate it gave me a headache. What could and should have been a joy was ruined by these very poor production judgments.
Please re-record this book with a narrator with a resonant voice who has a sense of how how ro read for an audience...and by all means, lose the annoying background noise!
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- Jay
- 14-09-13
The Razor's Edge
Any additional comments?
While difficult to date, the Bhagavad Gita is generally accepted to have been written well before both the Christian Bible as well as the Buddha. Some place it as far back as 4000 years or more. Academically, it is not generally dated that far back, though. Its relevance to the present day is that it supposedly contains universal truths.
People can believe what they want to believe and it makes little difference to me. This review being written in a supposedly Christian nation, however, my personal opinion is that all Christians should be required to read the Bhagavad Gita at least once in their life. Why? The carefully crafted version of history that was -- and still is -- spoon fed to Christians is that anyone in ancient times that wasn't a Christian was sacrificing babies on alters. That Christians think they have a monopoly on The Truth is somewhat of an understatement.
That said, "The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners," by Jack Hawley, would make a fine choice for a first time reader. The audiobook, read by the author is superb, as well. I normally cringe a little bit when I see an author read their own book, but in this case, Hawley did a great job. I can't imagine the book being read by anyone else.
The amazing thing about this translation is that it speaks to you as if it was written last week, not thousands of years ago. And just what wisdom can be found in these ancient texts that is relevant to today?
Note the following words on diet and eating:
[K]now that there are subtle elements in food that significantly influence the mind ... Tamasic people eat old, overcooked, stale, tasteless, impure, and dead food with no nutritional value.
As of this review, America is second only to Mexico as the most overweight nation in the world. We are looking at the fruits of eating old, overcooked, stale, tasteless, impure, and dead food. Our hospitals overrunneth. By just moving away from America, you could cut your risk of cancer by up to 200%.
A few years ago, U.S. News and World Report used an independent panel of 22 experts to rank the best diets. Many were surprised that the Raw Food Diet won second best weight-loss diet (a raw food diet is a nutrition plan that is based on uncooked, fresh and live...mostly plant-based foods).
Even more surprising is that thousands of years ago, the hazards of eating dead, overcooked foods was not only known, but written about. And here I was thousands of years later being surprised something that old is still relevant. It's almost as if I stumbled upon a universal truth or something.
Anyway, whenever I think about Bhagavad Gita, I'm always reminding of the movie The Razor's Edge, with a very cold Bill Murray sitting in a hut somewhere on the Himalaya mountains, while on his vision quest. At some point, he became so cold that he ripped the pages from the old copy of the Upanishads he was reading and used them to build a small fire. Maybe I'm wrong, but I always took that to mean that he figured out: there is only so much you are going to get from a book.
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- Viola
- 23-01-13
Jack Hawley's Bhagavad Gita
Where does The Bhagavad Gita rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
It was my second audiobook, and it was fantastic.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
When the author talks at the end of the book of his personal experience and how the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita helped him and his wife.
Any additional comments?
A book I will surely listen to again.
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- Colin Quintin
- 18-02-21
Amazing. Changed my life.
Thank you. Simply amazing life changing. God bless. The inner truths brought to light. Ohm, ohm, peace, peace, peace. ☮️ 🕊️
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- Alex Julian
- 11-02-21
The BEST Version for Americans or Beginners
Jack Hawley does an incredible job making this sacred book accessible to everyone.
Other translations of the Bhagavad Gita can be very intense and hard to grasp. This one is a smooth read, and Jack Hawley makes the difficult concepts easy to understand.
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- Yoshi Tryba
- 17-02-20
Interesting philosophy
Not the best reading, and the story is ancient so not the most absorbing text. The ideas and philosophy are interesting for those unexposed
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- Dave Espionage
- 29-01-15
A great interpretation of a legendary story
For something as complex and historied as the Mahabarata, it is fantastic to hear a clear and educational version of the Bhagavad Gita. The assistance in understanding terminology is very helpful throughout. The personal anecdotes add a significant value to the overall experience as well.
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