The Gospel Of Selfless Action (The Gita According To Gandhi)

by Mahadev Desai

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This collection is Mahadev Desai's English rendering of the Mahatma Gandhi's Gujurati text of the Bhagavad Gita. Only the Gita passages themselves and Gandhi's sparse, elegant comments are included. Here, Gandhi fully explains his approach to the Gita.

From the Foreword by M.K Ghandi:

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.