 Our friend Philippe L. De Coster is doing a new translation of the Hindu Epic the Bhagavad Gita, and he sent out an update to anyone who might be interested in his progress. We wish him luck, and thought we would also take this opportunity to remind all our friends in the meanitme about our Bhagavad Gita Card Deck (as pictured on the left).
**************** Dear Friends,
As previously written a week ago or more, I am now back home from hospital for a few days only, after a quite severe operation at my colon (back). I had a hernia, and more. The operation took two hours, so the surgeon mentioned. All is well, though very weak now, quickly tired, not able to achieve many things, walking with a walking stick, although I try not. Just back home for a few days, leaving on Sunday for the Belgian coast to rest a few weeks in a resort, a specialised hotel at “De Haan”, well-known by British Tourists.
Perhaps I stay away one week, or a fortnight.
Friends suggest I take my portable computer with me, to further my ‘Bhagavad Gita” work to replenish my website afterwards. First of all furthering the following chapters as found on
www.haguratelier.com/GitaUKgita7a.html
Hoping to finish some more chapters while on convalescence. It is at my own translation I am working at, and improving translation all the time, now enriched with the Sanskrit transliteration, and the word by word translation into English, adding the different interpretations of the words where needed, trying to stay as close as possible to the original text, but making it readable in English.
There is a difference between the “self”, and the “Self”, or the “Higher Self”, meaning staying close to the original text, while making the verses readable in English as mentioned above.
While Christianity
is failing to its purpose today, holding here in mind, those religions as found in Europe; however, at the other hand, many people having faith in God and in the power of prayer and meditation are looking for an alternative in Buddhism and Hinduism. The Bhagavad Gita is the solution for modern man. It is a complete book of 700 verses of spiritual development in this life, in wait of the evolutional other.
The Gita is the only solution for the West I really think, older than any other Western Sacred Writing, ever fresh and up-to-date. India’s sacred writings as found in the Veda is very scientific and appeals to our way of thinking today.
Thank you for your prayer support, your uplifting mails, and your visits on my website as well while I was away. I could count the number of visits at my return for the last week..
I hope to be back in a fortnight or less with more updates on
www.haguratelier.com/GitaBelgium.html
With my very best wishes,
Namast,
Philippe L. De Coster, B.Th., D.D.
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