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Bhagvad-Gita: Treatise of Self-help by BSMurthy
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09 Sep 2025
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The spiritual ethos and the philosophical outlook that the Bhagavad-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 endeavour is to restore Gita's original character by ridding it of hundred and ten interpolations, which, besides muddling the understanding of the adherents tend to keep the skeptics away from it.
In this is conveyed Gita’s pristine philosophy in evocative verses without commentary and sans theological twists and ideological turns.