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Compassion - The Spirit of Truth

By Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

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Selected Editions Of The Bhagavad Gita

All quotations from, and references to, the Bhagavad-Gita are from WQ Judge’s recension of 1890. Although verses were not numbered in that edition, chapter and verse numbers are here provided for convenience of reference and study. A versified edition of Judge’s Gita is now available in our Higher Ethics and Devotion Series.

The list of works below is highly selective. It should be viewed as an illustration of an unprecedented and ever-growing interest in this epic poem. Older editions of the Bhagavad-Gita are listed in the Bibliography of Blavatsky Collected Writings, V p. 363.

Translations with introductory essay, annotations, and commentaries

Easwaran E. (Tr. & Ed.) The Bhagavad Gita. (1st ed. 1985); London: Arkana Penguin Books, 1986 
Gambhirananda S. (Tr. & Ed.) Bhagavadgita with the Commentary of Shankaracharya. Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 1995 
Hill WDP. (Tr. & Ed.) The Bhagavadgita. (1st ed. 1928); Madras: Oxford University Press, 1966 
Prabhupada ACBS. (Tr. & Ed.) Bhagavad Gita as it is. (1st ed. 1984); Sydney: Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1985 
Prem SK. (Tr. & Ed.) The Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita. London: John M Watkins, 1938 
Radhakrishnan S. (Tr. & Ed.) The Bhagavadgita. (1st ed. 1948); London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1948. [Transliteration]
 Zaehner RC. (Tr. & Ed.) The Bhagavad Gita with a Commentary based on the Original Sources. (1st ed. 1969); New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. [Transliteration]

Translations with introductory essay and annotations
Johnson WJ. (Tr.) The Bhagavad Gita. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994 
Stoler Miller B. (Tr.) The Bhagavad Gita: Krishna’s Counsel in Time of War. New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1998
Van Buitenen JAB. (Tr.) The Bhagavad Gita. Rockport: Element, 1997 
Van Buitenen JAB. (Tr.) The Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. [Transliteration]

Translations only 
Arnold E. (Tr.) The Song Celestial or Bhagavad Gita. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co Ltd, 1927 
Mascaro J. (Tr.) The Bhagavad Gita. London: Penguin Books, 1962 
Nabar V & Tumkur S. (Tr.) The Bhagavad Gita. Ware: Wordsworth Classics, 1997 
Prabhavananda S & Isherwood C. (Tr.) The Song of God: Bhagavad Gita. (1st ed. 1944); 
New York: Mentor Books, 1972 
Purohit SS. (Tr.) Bhagavad Gita. (1st ed. 1935); Boston: Shambhala, 1994 Purohit SS. (Tr.) The Geeta: The Gospel of Lord Shri Krishna. (1st ed. 1935); London: Faber & Faber, 1965

Monographs
Barborka GA. The Pearl of the Orient: The message of the Bhagavad Gita for the Western World. Wheaton: Theosophical Publishing House, 1968 
Divatia HV. The Art of Life in the Bhagavad Gita. (1st ed. 1951); Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1991 
Feuerstein G. The Bhagavad Gita: Its philosophy and cultural setting. (1st ed. 1974); Wheaton: Theosophical Publishing House, 1983

Selected articles from HP Blavatsky Collected Writings
A FEW THOUGHTS ON SOME WISE WORDS FROM A WISE MAN, IV pp. 493-503 
ARE CHELAS “MEDIUMS?” VI pp. 223-27 
CAN THE MAHATMAS BE SELFISH? VI pp. 263-66 C
HELAS AND LAY CHELAS, IV pp. 606-14 
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE, X pp. 34-42 
CONVERSATIONS ON OCCULTISM, IX pp. 99-128 
DESIRE MADE PURE, VIII p. 129 
DEVACHAN, V pp. 70-94 
E.S. INSTRUCTION No. I (RECAPITULATION), XII pp. 533-35 
E.S. INSTRUCTION No. II (THE UNITY OF DEITY), XII pp. 569-70 
E.S. INSTRUCTION No. II (WHAT MAGIC IS, IN REALITY), XII pp. 551-61 
E.S. INSTRUCTION No. III (ABOUT “PRINCIPLES” AND “ASPECTS”), XII pp. 607-10 
E.S. INSTRUCTION No. V (THE HEART), XII pp. 694-97 
IS THE DESIRE TO “LIVE” SELFISH? VI pp. 241-48 IS 
THEOSOPHY A RELIGION? X pp. 159-74 
“LET EVERY MAN PROVE HIS OWN WORK” VIII pp. 159-71 
MAGIC, II pp. 31-39 
MISCONCEPTIONS, VIII pp. 70-91 
MISTAKEN NOTIONS ON THE SECRET DOCTRINE, XII pp. 234-37 
OCCULTISM VERSUS THE OCCULT ARTS, IX pp. 249-61 
ORIGINAL PROGRAMME OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, VII pp. 135-75 
PRACTICAL OCCULTISM, IX pp. 155-62 
PSYCHIC AND NOETIC ACTION, XII pp. 350-74 
SELF-KNOWLEDGE, VIII p. 108 
SPIRITUAL PROGRESS, VI pp. 331-37 
THE BEACON OF THE UNKNOWN, XI pp. 248-83 
THE DOCTRINE OF AVATARAS, XIV pp. 370-85 
THE ENSOULED VIOLIN, II pp. 219-58 
THE GREAT PARADOX, VIII pp. 125-29 
THE LAST SONG OF THE SWAN, XII pp. 112-16
THE MYSTERY OF BUDDHA, XIV pp. 388-99 
THE NEW CYCLE, XI pp. 123-36 
THE ORIGIN OF EVIL, VIII pp. 110-25 
THE POWER TO HEAL, IV pp. 380-86 
THE SCIENCE OF LIFE, VIII pp. 240-49 
THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES, XIV pp. 386-87 
“THE THEOSOPHICAL MAHATMAS” VII pp. 241-49 
THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: ITS MISSION AN ITS FUTURE, X pp. 63-81 
THE TIDAL WAVE, XII pp. 1-8 
VICTIMS OF WORDS, VI pp. 141-43 
WHAT ARE THE THEOSOPHISTS? II pp. 98-106 
WHAT IS THEOSOPHY? II pp. 87-97 
“WHAT IS TRUTH?” IX pp. 30-42 
WHAT OF PHENOMENA? IX pp. 46-50 
WHAT SHALL WE DO FOR OUR FELLOW-MEN? XI pp. 464-80 
WHY DO ANIMAS SUFFER? IX pp. 286-88 
WHY THE “VAHAN”? XII pp. 417-19 
WILL AND DESIRE, VIII p. 109 
WORLD-IMPROVEMENT OR WORLD-DELIVERANCE, XI pp. 343-54