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Interested in helping us spread some good and positive energy during these stressful times? Looking for something interesting to explore? Inspired by our unusual circumstances, we want to distribute 12,000 of the world’s most ancient book on yoga and meditation, Bhagavad Gita As It Is, around the city, one for as many doorsteps as we can reach. Our hope is to give people a practical tool to navigate these uncertain times, and to provide solace for unsettled minds in the midst of stress, anxiety and fear.
In a world enduring the enforcement of “social distancing,” we need a deep, genuine, human connection now more than ever. For that endeavor, please help us to share this book with others!
ONE FOR YOU
& ONE FOR ME
$ 11
Sponsor a book for yourself, and one for someone else! Along with your address, if you have a specific person you would like us to ship the book to, then please also provide their full name and address. *Shipping available anywhere in the U.S.
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A BOOK FOR THE
NEIGHBORS
$ 108
Sponsor a box of 24 books to share with a Philadelphia neighborhood! Our dedicated team of volunteers will make sure each book reaches someone in need.
A BOOK FOR THE
NEIGHBORS
$ 54
Sponsor half a box of books to share with a Philadelphia neighborhood! Our dedicated team of volunteers will make sure each book reaches someone in need.
A BOOK FOR
EVERYONE
$ 1000
Sponsor 10 boxes (240 books!) to share with the different Philadelphia communities! Our dedicated team of volunteers will make sure each book reaches someone in need.
Mantra Lounge Virtual Book Club!
What do to with all these books? Your generous sponsorship entitles you to join our weekly virtual book club, where a deeper study of the text is available within a supportive and engaging community. Become part of the vibrant Mantra Lounge community and begin your journey of self-discovery and growth. Email bhaktiphilly@gmail.com for more information!
About the Bhagavad Gita:
The Bhagavad Gita As It is the quintessential Vedic text delineating the science and application of yoga and meditation. Eternal wisdom passed down since time immemorial, it provides practical guidance on how to execute the process of self-realization regardless of the external circumstances we find ourselves in. In a world of increasing complexity, this text offers a sustainable alternative – access to a comprehensive spiritual reality, based on complete knowledge of the self and the Supreme Self, Krishna.
Written by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Bhagavad-Gita As It Is is the most authoritative English translation of the text. For those seeking spiritual wisdom, a solution to the world’s woes, or an answer to life’s most difficult questions – Who am I? Why am I here? Why is there suffering? Is this life all there is? – this book is a must-read.
Well-Known Readers of the Bhagavad Gita
“When doubts haunt me when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-Gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.”
~Mahatma Gandhi
“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.”
~Henry David Thoreau
“I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I’ve started reading the Bhagavad Gita…I’m loving it.”
~Will Smith