Lord iva''s Song: The vara Gt

While the Bhagavad Gt is an acknowledged treasure of world spiritual literature, few people know a parallel text, thevara Gt. This lesser-known work is also dedicated to a god, but in this case it is iva, rather than Ka, who is depicted as the omniscient creator of the world. Andrew J. Nicholson's Lord iva's Song makes this text available in English in an accessible new translation. A work of both poetry and philosophy, the vara Gt builds on the insights of Patañjali's Yoga Stra and foreshadows later developments in tantric yoga. It deals with the pluralistic religious environment of early medieval India through an exploration of the relationship between the gods iva and Viu. The work condemns sectarianism and violence and provides a strategy for accommodating conflicting religious claims in its own day and in our own. See more