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Gita On The Green - The Mystical Tradition Behind Bagger Vance

by Steven Pressfield, Stephen J. Rosen
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Mystical golf journey with divine guidance.

"Gita On The Green" provides a unique perspective on the interplay between spirituality and sports, specifically golf. The book explores the underlying mystical tradition of the Bhagavad Gita and applies it to the story of a troubled golf champion and his wise caddy. Readers will appreciate the unique take on the sports genre, and the way the story integrates spiritual teachings into the narrative seamlessly.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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by Steven Pressfield, Stephen J. Rosen
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ISBN: 9780826413017
Authors: Steven Pressfield, Stephen J. Rosen
Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group
Date of Publication: 2000-01-15
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Art, Religion, Personal Development, Philosophy
Related Topics: Spirituality, Hinduism, Art and Photography, Personal Development, Crafts, Christian Non Fiction, Design, Photography
Goodreads rating: 3.62
(rated by 26 readers)

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Deep in India's past, Lord Krishna revealed the 700 verse Bhagavad-gita, a spiritual poem containing universal, non-sectarian truths. In 1995, Steven Pressfield decided to introduce the Bhagavad-gita to a contemporary audience, so he restructured the Gita in terms of a golf novel, The Legend of Bagger Vance. As he says, "In the Gita the troubled warrior Arjuna receives instruction from Krishna, Supreme Lord of the Universe, who has assumed human form as Arjuna's charioteer. Instead of a troubled warrior, it's a troubled golf champion (Rannulph Junah); instead of his charioteer, it's his caddie Bagger Vance." Now a major motion picture directed by Robert Redford and starring Matt Damon and Will Smith, The Legend of Bagger Vance is loosely based on the ancient Hindu epic. Steven Rosen, in Gita on the Green: The Mystical Tradition Behind Bagger Vance, draws the story out further using some thirty years of Gita scholarship and a writing style that is both eloquent and thorough. Rosen takes us on a colorful journey into the golf world of Bagger Vance, as well as into the spiritual realm of Bhagavan Sri Krishna. By the end of the journey, one realizes that one has just read a commentary on the Bhagavad-gita while hitting a hole in one.Steven J. Rosen is the author of fifteen books on East-Indian philosophy and spirituality. For the last eight years he has been the editor of The Journal of Vaishnavi Studies (an interdisciplinary quarterly). He is currently part of an editorial team working to complete The Encyclopedia of Hinduism, an eighteen volume compendium of Indian thought (forthcoming, 2003, University of South Carolina Press).
 

Mystical golf journey with divine guidance.

"Gita On The Green" provides a unique perspective on the interplay between spirituality and sports, specifically golf. The book explores the underlying mystical tradition of the Bhagavad Gita and applies it to the story of a troubled golf champion and his wise caddy. Readers will appreciate the unique take on the sports genre, and the way the story integrates spiritual teachings into the narrative seamlessly.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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