The book you hold in your hands stands by itself in the field of Bhagavad Gita commentary. Nataraja Guru has extricated the work from its historical and cultural setting to present it as it was always intended to be appreciated: as a universally applicable psychology and philosophy of life and living. This is very much in keeping with the Guru’s lifelong task of revaluing and restating India’s ancient wisdom heritage in terms acceptable and comprehensible to intelligent modern human beings anywhere and at any time. Nataraja Guru’s insights remain unique and essential. When both science and religion have become mature enough to surrender their turf wars to something akin to the unifying vision of the ancient rishis of India, the human race will have made its greatest conscious stride toward a substantive peace evincing universal justice and happiness. The doors of this type of perception are wide open, thanks in part to the Guru’s revolutionary treatment of this ancient masterwork of the human race.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nataraja Guru
Nataraja Guru was born in Bangalore in 1895. After graduation from the University of Madras he became a close disciple of the Guru Narayana (1854-1928). As the disciple-successor of Narayana Guru he is a representative of the same pure, direct vertical line of succession of philosophical revaluators extending back through time to the most ancient phase of the history of human thought. Nataraja Guru studied under Henri Bergson at the Sorbonne at Paris, where he took his Doctorate in Educational Psychology. In 1923 he founded the Narayana Gurukula Foundations, a Guru-disciple foundation for the preservation of the type of life and global attitude suggested in this book, and in line with the Advaita Vedanta Ashramas of India. In 1951, Nataraja Guru was himself publilcly acknowledged as a Guru uniquely qualified to present the teaching and attitude expressed by his Master. He has translated into English and commented on all the major works of Narayana Guru, and has written on a wide variety of subjects, employing throughout a protolinguistic or structural approach which could be said to be his unique contribution to the perennial wisdom-heritage of mankind.
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