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). He lives in Nyack, NY.
Steven J. Rosen is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Vaishnava
Studies and Associate Editor of Back to Godhead, the magazine of
the Hare Krishna movement. His recent books include Holy Cow: The
Hare Krishna Contribution to Vegetarianism and Animal Rights,
Essential Hinduism (Greenwood, 2006), and Krishna's Song: A New
look at the Bhagavad Gita (Praeger, 2007).
"There have been hundreds of commentaries on the Bhagavad-Gita;
this one manages to cut to the chase....a fresh and fun approach to
studying this monumental work of the Hindu faith."-NAPRA ReView
"Rosen's exegesis is delightful for its Gita scholarship, for the
fun he has integrating the language of golf with the language of
yoga ('"yoga means "to link"'), and especially for his
deconstruction of the novel in light of the Gita. Those of us who
love this kind of literary-spiritual excavation will find great
satisfaction in curling up with the quasi-holy trinity of the Gita,
the Pressfield novel, and Rosen's Gita on the Green."-Yoga Journal
"Gita on the Green shows how a long-honored spiritual substance can
be...made viable for a modern-day audience....For those of us who
have been long in the Ramakrishna Vedanta tradition, Gita on the
Green provides a fresh approach."-American Vedantist "Gita on the
Green does for the Bhagavad-Gita what Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance did for Zen Buddhism. It takes a philosophically
elaborate Eastern tradition and makes it accessible for a Western
audience....Enjoyable enlightenment,"-Tamal Krishna Goswami "Very
readable....Rosen is truly one of those rare writers who is
qualified to depict this epic treatise of a man facing his own
nature and arising victorious in this battle of life over the
'lower self.'"-Hare Krishna World
"In the Bhagavad-gita, the heroic if spiritually challenged Arjuna
asks his charioteer Krishna for good advice. He discovers half-way
through their exchange that all the while he had been receiving
God-advice. . . . Hmmm . . . Now what if Arjuna were a golfer, and
God was his caddie? That would no doubt transform the classic text
into something more readable for Westerners. This was accomplished
in The Legend of Bagger Vance and taken further by Steven Rosen,
who, in Gita on the Green, puts us all on the playing field with
Bagger and Bhagavan Sri Krishna. The result is indeed
edifying!"-Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor of Comparative Religion,
McGill University, and author of The Hindu Gita
"Gita on the Green does for the Bhagavad-gita what Zen and the Art
of Motorcycle Maintenance did for Zen Buddhism. It takes a
philosophically elaborate Eastern tradition and makes it accessible
for a Western audience. . . . Enjoyable enlightenment!"-Tamal
Krishna Goswami, University of Cambridge
"A fresh and fun approach to studying this monumental work of the
Hindu faith [the Bhagavad-gita]."-NAPRA ReView
Titled mentioned in article by author in Yoga Magazine, 2008.
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