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The Bhagavad Gita

With introduction to the Gita, summary of the Mahabharata and notes based on commentary of Sankaracharya. "The first really readable, authoritative English translation of one of the world's greatest religious classics." --Time Magazine.

Swami Nikhilananda

Swami Nikhilananda was born in a small Indian village in 1895 and was ordained a monk of the Ramakrishna Order in 1924. After spending several years in the Himalayan monastery of his Order, during which time he made a study of Hinduism and other systems of philosophy and religion, he was sent to America in 1931. He founded the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center of New York in 1933 and was its spiritual leader until his passing away in 1973.

Ramakrishna–Vivekananda Center