--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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.
Perhaps......
