Inane Interpolations In Bhagvad-Gita
(An Invocation for their Revocation)
BS Murthy
Copyright@2021BS Murthy
Cover Concept – E. Rohini Kumar
Self Imprint
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Other books by BS Murthy –
Benign Flame: Saga of Love
Jewel-less Crown: Saga of Life
Crossing the Mirage – Passing through youth
Glaring Shadow - A stream of consciousness novel
Prey on the Prowl – A Crime Novel
Of No Avail – Web of Wedlock (A novella)
Stories Varied - A Book of short Stories
Onto the Stage – Slighted Souls and other stage and radio plays
Puppets of Faith: Theory of Communal Strife ( A Critical Appraisal of Islamic Faith, Indian Polity 'n More)
Bhagvad -Gita: Treatise of Self –help (A translation in verses)
Sundara Kānda - Hanuman's Odyssey (A translation in verses)
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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.
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Contents
Why is this Book Now?
Author's Note
Gita's Double Jeopardy
Provocation for Interpolation
Hindu Intellectual Apathy
Chapter - 3: Karma Yoga
Chapter - 4: Jñāna–Karma-SanyasaYoga
Chapter - 5: Karma–Sanyasa Yoga
Chapter - 6: Ātma Samyama Yoga
Chapter - 7: Gjnāna Vigjnāna Yoga
Chapter - 8: Akshara Parabrahma Yoga
Chapter - 9: Raja–Vidya–Raja–Guhya Yoga
Chapter - 11: Vishvarupa-sandarsanaYoga
Chapter -13: Kshetra–Kshetragjna Vibhāga Yoga
Chapter -14: Gunatraya–Vibhaga yoga
Chapter -15: Purushottama Prāpti Yoga
Chapter -16: Daivasura–Sampad–Vibhaga Yoga
Chapter- 17: Shraddhatraya-Vibhaga Yoga
Chapter -18: Moksha–Sanyasa Yoga
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Why is this Book Now?
The Manusmriti, the social doctrine of yore, and the Bhagvad-Gita, the spiritual tome in vogue that lay down the discriminatory dharma (duties) of the four social classes (castes) have been the bugbears of the Hindu backward classes. However, to their chagrin, of late, as the latter is being mindlessly promoted even though the former was constitutionally debunked, they began advocating that it too should be dumped in a dustbin.
Ironically, the improbability of their progenitor Krishna, the architect of the Gita, relegating his own ilk to the social margins failed to dawn upon these that Gita supposedly slights, even to this day! Thus, their intellectuals, instead of seeking to reclaim their priceless heritage, albeit after ridding its interpolative garbage, tend to rubbish it a la throwing the baby with the bathwater, and needless to say they must ponder.
Also, it is high time that the Gita-class stop laying store by the self-aggrandizing verses in this Vyāsa's classic, evidently inserted by their progenitors that came to bedevil the Hindu spiritual integrity and social harmony. Likewise, the grumblers of the dalit desertions must see the need for setting the Hindu house in order to prevent the fractious poaching by the Church, if not to facilitate the 'hoped for' return of the prodigals. So also those who take pride that Hinduism is the only religion that reckons all faith as true, should be concerned about the 'in vogue' Gita that belittles some of their caste fellows. Besides, this work beckons the feminists to reckon the second of the two interpolations from it cited in the cover image that degrades them in unspeakable terms.
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.