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Teaching mindfully: learning and teaching through story-telling.

Publication: Academic Exchange Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-JUN-03 		Format: Online - approximately 702 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The well-known Catholic monk and writer Thomas Merton called the Bhagavad-gita (also called the Gitopanisad) "the main literary support for the great religious civilization of India, the oldest surviving culture in the world." [1] According to Srila Prabhupada, author of more than sixty volumes of translations of and commentaries on the religious classics of India, the Gita "is the essence of Vedic knowledge and one of the most important Upanisads in Vedic literature." [2]

Yet while devotees of Krsna ("the highest pleasure") often study this work by itself as one of their great scriptures, it is also part of a larger story, the historical...

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