Bhagvad-Gita: Treatise of Self-help by BS Murthy (best summer reads of all time TXT) 📕

68  
Whoso passes this secret
To devout Mine all reach Me true.

69 
Know not I a dearer soul 
None there ever a better service.

70  
Who that studies this discourse   
He Me prays in true wisdom.

71  
Hears this whoso in good faith 
Attains he the Worlds Higher.

72  
Looks as if thou got it right
Let not delusions rule thy head.

73  
Thus spoke Arjuna:
Glad O Lord
Gone are doubts, 
Sense I gained  
With Thy words.

74  
Thus spoke Sanjaya:
It’s what I’ve heard of that stirring 
Dialogue between these great souls
Krishn and Arjun as they spoke.

75  
It’s with Vyasa’s grace I've heard
This peerless art of yogic life 
Which Lord Krishna taught Pãrtha.

76  
Found I thrilling, dialogue stirring 
Reminiscing I rejoice, again and again.

77  
What a wondrous Form that was
Recalling I rejoice, again and again.

78   
Wherever yogic Lord Krishna 
Joins hands with great Paartha   
Goddess Victory, spreads carpet
Heaven on earth to set there ever.

Ends thus:
Thy Looking-glass  
The Eighteenth Chapter
Of Vyãsã’s classic 
Bhagavad-Gita.

Publication Date: 01-27-2015

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Dedication:
What Torah is to Judaism, Bible to the Christianity and Quran to Islam, Bhagvad - Gita is to Hinduism but with a vital difference that is fundamental to the religious ethos and the belief system. While the Semitic Books dictate the God's diktats to the respective believers, the Hindu epic deals with the nuances of karma the disinterested action, and dharma the principled conduct that lend man the artha the worldly balance on his way to moksha the merger of one's soul with the Supreme Soul that is the Godhead. However, the over two millennium-old philosophical precepts postulated by Lord Krishna to warrior Arjuna at Kurukshetra, on the eve of the Battle of Mahabharata, that Veda Vyasa composed for mankind came to be polluted by unholy interpolations as Bhagvad - Gita was being passed on from generation to generation through the oral tradition of yore. This modern rendition in contemporary verse that is rid of 110 interpolative slokas from the now in-vogue 700 seeks to restore its pris