Ome, Vasudeva, Sutam, Devam, Kamshachanuram Ardhanam,

Devaki, Paramanandam, Krishna, Vande, Jagad Guru. It's so wonderful. I was just thinking that we get the opportunity to study this, this amazing dialogue between God and man,

Sri Krishna and his friend and disciple, Arjuna, lost in the mists of antiquity, thousands

of years ago, ocean survey, civilization survey, and yet here we are in the 21st century in Manhattan

studying this amazing dialogue. Just yesterday we had a visitor, a professor from Penn State,

who was writing a book related to ethics and Vedanta.

But he loves collecting editions of the Gita, translations.

So he was telling me that he has a whole cabinet, a whole cabinet full of different editions of the Gita.

Yale University last year, they did a workshop in summer on the Bhagavad Gita and they have started a collection of all the English

translations of the Bhagavad Gita. And note that they started a collection, which you can imagine

how many English translations there are. Even last year I saw this very nice translation was

published, a free translation. It's called God's Song, which is a literal translation of Bhagavad Gita,

God's Song.

And there was a review in New York Times

where the reviewer said,

apparently to read the Gita

is to be seized by an inordinate desire

to translate it.

I remember maybe it was about nearly 20 years ago.

I was wandering in the foothills of the Himalayas, looking for a great master, spiritual

masters.

And restless to boot, somebody told me that there's this monk you should meet.

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