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When is a gift pure? According to The Bhagavad Gita |
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Wednesday, 18 October 2006 |
A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person
at the right time and at the right place,
and when we expect nothing in return. ch17.v20
As translated from Sanskrit to English by Juan Mascaró
Excerpt from The Unabridged Audio Feature of the Juan Mascaró translation of The Bhagavad Gita
By permission courtesy of Transformational Enterprises Inc. (WI, U.S.A.), Multimedia et Culture S.A.S. (PARIS) and Penguin (U.K.).
Chapter 17 Summary: Krishna speaks of Three types of Food, Sacrifice and Harmony. He concludes that Work , Sacrifice, Gift or Self-Harmony done without Faith are "ASAT - are nothing - both in this World and in the World to come."
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Last Updated ( Monday, 18 December 2006 )
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Monday, 09 October 2006 |
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Precious Input: Sricharan Faeq Biria , Dr. Ramanand Prasad , William Radice PhD, Sarada Diffenbaugh PhD, Nuno Mourato
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Last Updated ( Monday, 12 February 2007 )
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Juan Mascaró Biography & Gita |
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Written by Wikipedia
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Saturday, 07 October 2006 |
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The Bhagavad Gita audiobook (CD and as a download) was published on the twentieth anniversary of Juan Mascaro's death, and on the 45th year of the publication of this popular Penguin Classic of the original sanskrit "Bhagavad Gita."
"The Bhagavad Gita is a book of Light and Love, bit it is above all a book of Life ... Karma is workn and work is Life." Juan Mascaro, translator of The Bhagavad Gita text in the unabridged audiobook.
Juan Mascaró (December 8, 1897 – March 19, 1987) was a translator born in Majorca (an island of Spain) to a farming family. He is responsible for one of the most popular English translations of the Hindu text Bhagavad Gita, and of some of the major Upanishads (both written originally in Sanskrit). He also translated a key Buddhist text, Dhammapada, into English from Pali. It was published in 1973. Uniquely, the languages used in his translations were not his native tongue.
His interest in religion started from the age of 13 when he studied a book on occultism. After finding this spiritually misleading, he discovered an older English translation of the Bhagavad Gita. This inspired him to study Sanskrit in order to gain a better understanding of the text, as the available translation was quite poor.
He studied modern and oriental languages at Cambridge University and spent some time lecturing on the Spanish Mystics. He then went to Ceylon where he was Vice-Principal of Parameshvara College at Jaffna. Later, he became Professor of English at the University of Barcelona. He settled in England after the Spanish Civil War and there made his translations of the Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads, as well as returning to Cambridge University where he was supervisor of English and lectured on "Literary and Spiritual Values in the Authorized Version of the Bible". He married Kathleen Ellis in 1951 and had a twin son and daughter. He died in 1987 near Cambridge.
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