Sharpe, Eric J The universal Glta' Western images of the Bhagamd Gita: a bicentenary survey LaSalle, IL: Open Court Pub. Co, 1985. p.14 as quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture
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What the Gita is finally is inseparable from its many contextual environments, ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, scholarly and popular, corporate and personal, secular and sacred - contextual environments that have emerged in an on-going historical process and will continue to emerge as that historical process unfolds.

— Gerald James Larson

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "What the Gita is finally is inseparable from its many contextual environments, ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, scholarly and popular, corporate and personal, secular and sacred - contextual environments that have emerged in an on-going historical process and will continue to emerge as that historical process unfolds." in the context of "Sharpe, Eric J The universal Glta' Western images of the Bhagamd Gita: a bicentenary survey LaSalle, IL: Open Court Pub. Co, 1985. p.14 as quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Gerald James Larson

Gerald James Larson (April 24, 1938 – April 27, 2019) was an Indologist known for his writings about Indian religions.