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What is the greatest poem ever written and why is it the Bhagavad Gita?
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>>23547688
because you're a puny pudgy pajeet pussy
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>>23547797
Alluring alliteration, asshole.
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>>23547814
cute cock, cunt
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>>23547688
Haven't read it but is picrel the best translation? Still believe it would be tough for anything to beat Milton's Paradise Lost.
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>>23547688
What is the greatest poem ever written and why is it the Bhagavad Gita?

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provides instruction for multiple types of spiritual practices
is applicable to anyone at any stage of life
psychedelic imagery
has countless incredibly powerful quotes
all in a relatively brief number of verses that never feels overbearing or forced
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>Haven't read it but is picrel the best translation?
It may not be the very best but it still renders it into pretty smooth English. Most of the Indian philosophical terminology is translated into an English equivalent. This is ideal for someone with no prior experience reading Indian literature. Easwaran's is also a simplified version for beginners to Indian thought although to a much greater degree than Mitchell's.

Once a person gains a detailed knowledge of common Indian/Hindu philosophical terminology, the text can be understood at a deeper level by reading a translation that leaves the important terms rendered in the latin alphabet but still untranslated, but even without this you can still easily notice and appreciate the profundity of the ideas even when almost all the Indian-specific philosophical terminology is rendered into English.



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