Bhagvad-Gita : Treatise of self-help

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Bhagavad-Gita is the most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue’ – so opined William von Humboldt. Though it is a matter of consensus that Bhagvad-Gita in the present length of seven hundred verses has many an interpolation to it, but no meaningful attempt has ever been made to delve into the nature and extent, not to speak of the effect of these on the Hindu society at large. The moot point that has missed the attention of all, all along, is that if the Sudras were to be so lowly in the Lord’s creation, how come then the Gita’s architect Krishna, His avatar, and Vyāsa, its chronicler, happen to be from the same lowly Hindu caste fold. Moreover, is it not absurd to suggest that either or both of them had deprecated the station of their own varna (caste) on their own in their very own Gita? The methodical codification of interpolations carried out here, for the first time ever, puts the true character of Gita in proper perspective. Identified here are hundred and ten slokas of deviant nature and or of partisan character, the source of so much misunderstanding about this book extraordinary, in certain sections of the Hindu fold. Thus, in the long run, exposing and expunging these mischievous insertions is bound to bring in new readers from these quarters to this over two millennia old classic besides altering the misconceptions of the existing adherents. In this modern rendition, the beauty of the Sanskrit slokas is reflected in the rhythmic flow of the English verses of poetic proportions even as the attendant philosophy of the song that is the Gita is captured in contemporary idiom for easy comprehension.
Excerpt
Chapter 2 – All about Life
11
Thus spoke the Lord:
Averring as knowing
Worried over trivia!
Reckon never wise
Dead and alive both.
12
You and Me
As well these,
Have had past
Future as well.
13
Wise all realize
Embodies selfsame spirit in one
From birth to death, in every birth.
14
Sensual feelings, grief ’n joy
Transient are like, heat and cold.
15
Weigh who pain ’n pleasure equal
Such are those on path freedom.
16
What’s not real, it’s never been
And that’s true, it’s ever there
That’s how wise all came to see.
17
Spirit in lay us All-Pervading
Given that not to destruction,
What sense doth it make to think
That’s immutable gets destroyed!
18
Perish all bodies, Spirit not therein
Know this truth, and take up arms.
19
With no slayer, nor one slain
Whoso feels that he might kill
It’s in delusion that he harps.
20
Unbound being ever unborn
Ageless since it’s endless too
Goes on Spirit, beyond life-span.
21
Spirit as entity hath no birth
How can thou kill what’s not born!
22
Change as men fade if clothes
So doth Spirit as frames are worn.
23
Hurts no weapon the Spirit in thee
Nor scathe elements, wind, water ’n fire.
24
Unalterable ’n Eternal
Immovable but pervades all
Permanent ’n so Everlasting
Spirit thus none can ever destruct.
25
Can sans form Spirit get bound?
Get right answer thou won’t burn.
26
Prima facie if thou feel
Subject Spirit is to rebirths
Why grieve over end of frame?
27
Dies as one
For like rebirth,
Why feel sad
Of what’s cyclic.
28
Isn’t thy lament over that
Un-manifested to start with
Gets manifested just as guest
And bids adieu in due course.
29
Seen in wonder, spoken in awe
Spirit none knows that lies in him.
30
Dies not Spirit as die beings
What for man then tends to grieve!
31
Being a warrior dharma thine
That thee fight with all thy might.

The link to the Audio Book in YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vFU3-LD4iM&t=11s

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00DVOB28Q
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Self Imprint (10 July 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2113 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 90 pages