Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
Thoreau said “In the morning, I bathe my intellect in Bhagavadgita, a stupendous and cosmogenal book in comparison which all our modern literature is trivial and useless.”
The greatest incident of the [Kurukshetra] war was the marvelous and immortal poem of the Gita, the Song Celestial. It is the popular scripture of India and the loftiest of all teachings. It consists of a dialogue held by Arjuna with Krishna, just before the commencement of the fight on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. I would advise those of you who have not read that book to read it. If you only knew how much it has influenced your own country even! If you want to know the source of Emerson’s inspiration, it is this book, the Gita. He want to see Carlyle, and Carlyle made him a present of Gita; and that little book is responsible for the Concord Movement. All the broad movements in America, in one way or other, are indebted to the Concord party.
-Swami Vivekananda,
‘The Mahabharata’, CompleteWorks,
Vol. IV (Mayavati, 1962), p. 95.