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The following pages by
Mahadev Desai are an ambitious project. It represents his unremitting labours during his
prison life in 1933-'34. Every page is evidence of his scholarship and exhaustive study of
all he could lay hands upon regarding the Bhagawad Gita, poetically called the Song
Celestial by the late Sir Edwin Arnold. The immediate cause of this labour of love was my
translation in Gujarati of the divine book as I understood it. In trying to give a
translation of my meaning of the Gita, he found himself writing an original commentary on
the Gita. |
Frankly, I do not pretend to any scholarship.
I have, therefore, contended myself with showing the genesis of Mahadev Desai's effort. In
so far as the translation part of the volume is concerned, I can vouch for its accuracy.
He has carried out the meaning of the original translation. I may add too that Pyarelal
has interfered with the original. only and in rare cases where it was considered to be
essential, an interference which Mahadev Desai would, in my opinion, have gladly accepted,
had he been alive.
[ From Foreword by M. K. GANDHI ] |
CONTENTS
FOREWORD-M. K. Gandhi
MY SUBMISSION
I PRELIMINARY II DATE, TEXT, AUTHOR ETC. III THE BOOK
AND THE THEME
IV THE FUNDAMENTALS
A. The Sankhya System
B. The Gita View
1. Prakriti and Gunas 2. The Gunas
3. Karma and Rebirth 4. The Individual, World and Reality 5. Avatara
6. The End and the Means
V INTERPRETATIVE ANALYSIS
The Delusion (Discourses I and 2)
Karma Yoga (Discourses 3 and 4)
Jnanayoga and Karmayoga Compared (Discourse 5)
Dhyanayoga (Discourses 6 to 8)
Bhaktiyoga (Discourses 9 to 11)
Dhyanayoga and Bhaktiyoga (Discourse 12)
The World and the Reality (Discourses 13-15)
Purusha and Prakriti and Knowledge
The Gunas
Ashvattha and Purushottama (Discourse 15)
Individual Ethics (Discourses 16 and 17)
Delusion Destroyed (Discourse 18)
VI A FEW QUESTIONS
The Four Varnas and Swadharma
Knowledge a Talisman?
Karma and Free-will
VII SOME CONTROVERSIES
VIII CONCLUSION
Note on the Translation
ANASAKTIYOGA-THE MESSAGE OF THE GITA
-M. K. Gandhi
DISCOURSE I, DISCOURSE II, DISCOURSE III, DISCOURSE IV, DISCOURSE V,
DISCOURSE VI, DISCOURSE VII, DISCOURSE VIII, DISCOURSE IX, DISCOURSE X, DISCOURSE XI,
DISCOURSE XII, DISCOURSE XIII, DISCOURSE XIV, DISCOURSE XV, DISCOURSE XVI, DISCOURSE XVII,
DISCOURSE XVIII
INDEX
[ TOP ]
[ ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS ] [ ASHRAM OBSERVANCE IN ACTION ] [ DIET AND DIET REFORM ] [ GANDHI FACES THE STORM ]
[ GANDHI WIELDS THE WEPON OF MORAL POWER ] [ GANDHIJI EXPECTS ] [ HIND SWARAJ OR INDIAN HOME RULE ] [ INDIA OF MY DREAMS ]
[ INDUSTRIAL AND AGRARIAN LIFE AND RELATIONS ] [
KEY TO HEALTH ] [ MOHAN-MALA ] [ MY
RELIGION ] [ NATURE CURE ] [ PATHWAY TO GOD ] [ PRAYER
]
[ SATYAGRAHA IN SOUTH AFRICA ] [ SELECTIONS FROM GANDHI ] [ SELF-RESTRAINT v. SELF-INDULGENCE ] [ THE ESSENCE OF HINDUISM ]
[ THE GOSPEL OF SELFLESS ACTION OR THE GITA ACCORDING TO
GANDHI ] [ THE LAW AND THE LAYERS
] [ THE MIND OF MAHATMA GANDHI ]
[ THE WAY TO COMMUNAL HARMONY ] [ TOWARDS NEW EDUCATION ] [ TRUTH IS GOD ] [ VILLAGE
SWARAJ ] [ GANDHI ] [ GANDHI IN ANECDOTES ]
[ THE SPIRITUAL BASIS OF SATYAGRAHA ] [ ‘‘GOING TO WIPE THEIR TEARS’’ ]