Which Bhagavad Gita translation should you read first?

Most people meet the Bhagavad Gita through one line about doing your duty without minding the outcome. Very few learn what that line is a reply to, and it changes the book completely. What the famous verse is actually answering Here is the passage everybody knows, in Edwin Arnold’s 1885 verse translation: Find full reward … Read more

The best translation of Meditations, compared

For most first-time readers of Marcus Aurelius, Gregory Hays’s 2002 translation is the one to start with, because it reads like a person thinking rather than a Victorian sermon. If you want it free, George Long’s 1862 translation is in the public domain and complete online. Those two answers cover almost everybody. Why does the … Read more