The Big Picture is a photo blog for the Boston Globe/boston.com, entries are posted every Monday, Wednesday and Friday by Alan Taylor. Inspired by publications like Life Magazine (of old), National Geographic, and online experiences like MSNBC.com's Picture Stories galleries and Brian Storm's MediaStorm, The Big Picture is intended to highlight high-quality, amazing imagery - with a focus on current events, lesser-known stories and, well, just about anything that comes across the wire that looks really interesting.

Chanting in traditional meter

Krishna teaches Arjuna about the nature of the soul. The chanting was taken from cassettes I bought eight years ago when I was in Vrindavan, India. I recently found out the recital was done by Sri Brahmananda Swami of the Chinmaya Mission. Sanskrit and English subtitles

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One of the little-known ancient teachings of India describes the nature of the Self

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