The Original Gita: Comments and Word-for-Word Sanskrit Translations

There are three parts to the book: a a condensed summary of Eastern Thought; the 209 verses of the Original Gita; a word-for-word Sanskrit-English translation of the 319 core verses of the Bhagavad Gita with comments on the Original Gita, supplemented with a glossary of Sanskrit terms and an index. Part One examines the questions: What is thought? What is space-time? What is life-death? Here, a basic understanding of the philosophy of the Gita can be obtained, providing a foundation for the author's comments on the Original Gita in Part Three. It discusses in the Chapters 1--3 the essentials of Eastern Thought in a consice form. The text is kept short so that we can ponder on a few sentences and evaluate for ourselves what has beeen written. The author's intention was that by distilling the essentials, we would be able to apply them in our dayly life. Part Two contains the author's translation of the Original Gita, available for the first time in English. The manuscript was handed to the author in 1970 by his teacher Saswitha. The Original Gita consistgs of only 209 verses, which can be correlated to 319 of the total of 700 verses of the Bhagavad Gita. It predates the Bhagavad Gita, but its dat is unknown, as well as its author. In Part Three a word-for-word English translation is given of the 319 Sanskrit core verses of the Bhagavad Gita. These core verses are not commented on, but comments on each of the 209 verses of the Original Gita are given.