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.
