Life Is a Battlefield: Insights from the Eternal Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita

Like Arjuna, every human being must navigate the battlefield of life, so the Gita speaks to us all, providing invaluable coping skills to handle adversities that inevitably arise along the way.In this book, Priya Arora clubs together verses that have a common theme or concept, such as the power of focus and how actions have consequences, and goes on to explain the instructions that the Gita offers on how to handle these situations. She contextualizes the verse and explains what the takeaway is meant to be.The Gita’s spiritual teachings are forever pertinent because they are not born of the social constraints or moral conventions of a particular time in history. Instead, Krishna shows the path to overcoming suffering by adopting the right attitude to adversity.This wonderful interpretation and explanation of the Gita shows the abiding relevance of Krishna’s instruction in our lives today.