Bhagvad-Gita: Treatise of Self-help
Publisher: Self Imprint
Published: 2010
Place of publication: India
Translated from: san
Translation of: Bhagavad Gita
Format: ebook
Number of pages: 72
First sentence: Ch1, v 1
Thus spoke Dhrutarãshtra: 
Appraise Sanjay as my sons 
Gathered at the battleground
Face the sons of my sibling
Eager for the war on hand.
Description: Bhagavad-Gita is the most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue’ – so opined William von Humboldt, who wrote seven-hundred verses in its praise.  
Though it is a matter of consensus that Bhagvad-Gita in the present length of seven hundred slokas 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 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 Bhagvad-Gita, the book extraordinary, in certain sections of the Hindu fold. 
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 verse of poetic proportions even as the attendant philosophy of the song that is Bhagvad-Gita is captured in contemporary idiom for easy comprehension.
Notes: The spiritual ethos and the philosophical outlook that the Bhagvad - Gita postulates paves the way for the liberation of man, who, as Rousseau said, ‘being born free, is everywhere in chains’. 
But equally it is a mirror of human psychology, which enables man to discern his debilities for appropriate redressal. 
All the same, the boon of an oral tradition that kept it alive for over two millennia became its bane with the proliferation of interpolations therein. Besides muddying its pristine philosophy, these insertions affect the sequential conformity and structural economy of the grand discourse. What is worse, to the chagrin of the majority of the Hindus, some of these legitimize the inimical caste system while upholding the priestly perks and prejudices. 
This rendition seeks to restore to the Gita, its original character by ridding it of hundred and nine interpolations, which tend to keep the skeptics away from it. And ironically these muddle the understanding as well. In the theatre of man as nothing surpasses the drama of war, the stage for unveiling the Gita’s unrivalled philosophy was set on the battleground of Kurukshetra at the threshold of the battle of Mahabharata.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Awe Unfounded; title: 3. All about Interpolations; title: Chapters; title: 1.  Arjuna’s Dilemma; title: 2.  All about Life; title: 3.  Theory of Action; title: 4.  Practical Wisdom; title: 5.  Art of Renunciation; title: 6.  Practice of Restraint; title: 7. Know the Spirit; title: 8.  Cycle of Creation; title: 9.  The Sacred Secret; title: 10. Discern the Divine; title: 11. Nature of Omnipresence; title: 12. Doctrine of Faith; title: 13. Field and Farmer; title: 14. Proclivities to Know; title: 15. Art of Liberation; title: 16. Frailty of Thought; title: 17. Science of Devotion; title: 18. Thy Looking-glass