On Feb 22, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Mr. Magoo wrote:
If you really want to read the Bhagavad Gita with it's Religious/Spiritual context still in tact read Swami Yogananda's two volumn set, an ambitious project but a remarkable translation! If you think you've read the Gita because you've read MMY's, think again. MMY doesn't even begin to unfold the Holy allegory of this great masterpiece of Vyasa's!! Seriously.... Don't mean to denegrate MMY's effort, only to put it in context. MMY himself qualifies his translation, as, to fulfill an "urgent need" and a "general basis" for further commentaries but deemed it "necessary...without further loss of time".
It's my understanding that all that was done for MMY's commentary was to read several extant versions and then he gave a synopsis and synthesis--in other words, it's not his own innate knowledge or comment, just a bunch of others put together in his own words. Rather disappointing once you know it's origin.
