Lord Siva's Song: The Isvara Gita

📦 Product Details

• Author: Andrew J. Nicholson
• Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers
• Publication Date: 7 June 2017
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Print Length: 235 pages
• ISBN-10: 8121513030
• ISBN-13: 978-8121513036
• Item Weight: 550 g

📖 About the Book

Lord Siva's Song: The Isvara Gita presents and explores the Isvara Gita, an important Sanskrit philosophical text traditionally associated with the Kurma Purana. Like the better-known Bhagavad Gita, it presents a dialogue on spiritual knowledge, devotion, yoga, and liberation, but places Lord Siva at the centre of its teachings.

Andrew J. Nicholson provides readers with an accessible English presentation of this classical work, making its philosophical ideas available to those interested in Indian religious and intellectual traditions.

The text explores themes including the nature of the self, knowledge, meditation, devotion, yoga, divine reality, and liberation (moksha). It is particularly valuable for readers studying Shaivism, Hindu philosophy, Sanskrit literature, and the broader tradition of Indian spiritual texts.

✍️ About the Author

Andrew J. Nicholson is a scholar of South Asian religions and Indian intellectual history. His academic work focuses on Hindu philosophy, religious traditions, and the historical development of Indian philosophical thought. He is known for his research on the interaction and development of different schools of Indian philosophy.