W. Douglas P. Hill
William Douglas Penneck Hill was a British Indologist, a scholar of King's College, Cambridge, former assistant master at Eton and principal of Jay Narayan's High School Benares. He is noted for his English commentary and scholarly translation of the Bhagavad Gita.
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Trending topics shown first"The Lord, O Arjuna, dwells in the heart of every being, and by his delusive power spins round all beings set on the machine."
"If the aim of life is to escape from life, the watchword of life must be Control. For if the wandering senses are allowed to dwell unchecked on objects of sense, attachment to those objects will arise…"
"The author of the Gītā is interested in man and his destiny; for man is the centre of creation. Brahman, it is true, dwells equally in every living creature; but to man is given a gift denied even to …"
"O son of Kuntī, bound by thine own duty born of thine own nature, that thing which thou desirest not to do by reason of delusion thou shalt do, even against thy will."
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