Vanity Karma: Ecclesiastes, the Bhagavad-Gita, and the Meaning of Life: A Cross-Cultural Commentary on the Book of Ecclesiastes - Softcover

Swami, Jayaadvaita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0892134496 ISBN 13: 9780892134496

Publisher: Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 2015

Synopsis

In Vanity Karma we find an encounter between India's greatest book of spiritual wisdom and the strangest book in the Bible. Ecclesiastes begins with an argument, overwhelmingly simple and powerful, that our life on earth is pointless, that we spend it working hard for nothing better than vapor and then die and disappear into oblivion. "Vanity of vanities," cries the speaker of the book. "All is vanity!" n the 1960s this wisdom profoundly moved a young Jewish American boy, starting him on a quest for meaning that led him to the Bhagavad-gita, India's quintessential text of spiritual wisdom. In Vanity Karma that young Jewish-American boy, now a 64-year-old swami, looks deeply into Ecclesiastes with the eyes of a reader steeped in the teachings of the Gita.

About this title

About the Author:

Jayadvaita Swami--writer, editor, publisher, and teacher--is an American monk in the Indian tradition of Krishna spirituality. He has edited more than forty books, mainly translations and commentaries for Sanskrit spiritual texts. He oversees the African division of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, the world's largest publisher of India's spiritual classics.Traveling year round, he has taught in more than sixty countries. He speaks especially from the original book of yoga, the Bhagavad-gita, India's best-known text of spiritual wisdom.In the 1980s he spent a year and half traveling in India on foot, staying in a different town or village every night. He walked about ten thousand miles.He is the author of Vanity Karma: Ecclesiastes, the Bhagavad-gita, and the Search for the Meaning of Life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0892134496
• ISBN 13: 9780892134496
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 353