（外文电子版资料）songofgod.pdf

THE SONG OF GOD ALMIGHTY By SRI SWAMI KRISHNANANDA Sri Swami Sivananda So Says Sri Swami Krishnananda Founder of Sri Swami Sivananda The Divine Life Society A DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY PUBLICATION First Edition : 1995 Second Edition : 1997 (3000 Copies) World Wide Web (WWW) Reprint : 1998 WWW site: /~pkanagar/divine/ This WWW reprint is for free distribution © The Divine Life Trust Society Published By THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY P.O. SHIVANANDANAGAR—249 192 Distt. Tehri-Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh, Himalayas, India. PREFACE The Bhagavadgita is in seven hundred Sanskrit verses and consists of eighteen chapters. The colophon of each chapter towards its end gives a brief idea of the content of the chapter. This classification would make one feel that the Bhagavadgita deals with eighteen subjects. But actually each chapter has something to say about certain other things also apart from the main intention of the chapter as indicated in the colophon. Further, on a reading of the entire Gita, even several times, it is likely that one may miss the true import of the teaching inasmuch as it is not easy to stratify in a serial or consecutive order the developmental process of thought in the Gita. All this is because the Gita is a Scripture and not a textbook for classrooms. Keeping in mind a necessity to arrange the teaching subjectwise, an attempt is made here to portray the Gita’s