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Inane Interpolations In Bhagvad-Gita (An Invocation for their Revocation) by BSMurthy
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09 Sep 2025
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Bhagavad-Gita is the most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue’ – William von Humboldt.
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.
This ‘overdue’ work, may lead the ‘denied’ Hindu castes as well as the favored folks for an objective approach to the in vogue Bhagvad-Gita which could dispel the misgivings of the former and the delusions of the latter, thereby bridging the Hindu emotional gulf with its abridged book that restores its original form. Whether or not one concurs with its propositions, this original work could be of interest to the students of logic and reasoning as well.
Dedicated to the slighted castes, whose forebear, Krishna,
bestowed the invaluable Gita upon the mankind that in due course was fouled by the vested priestly interests.- Language:
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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.