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must learn to give up lust, anger, greed, and establish mastery over
the six senses (touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing, and mind) by
the purified intellect. One should always remember that all works
are being done by the energy of nature and that he or she is not the
doer but only an instrument.
One must strive for excellence in all
undertakings but maintain equanimity in success and failure, gain
and loss, and pain and pleasure. Ajnaana, the ignorance of
metaphysics (the transcendental knowledge, or Self-knowledge) is
humanity's greatest predicament. The language is incapable and
translations are defective to clearly impart the knowledge of the
Self.
In this rendering an attempt has been
made to keep the style as close as possible to the original Sanskrit
poetry and yet make it easy to read and understand. An attempt has
been made to improve the clarity by adding words or phrases. The
simpler 133 key verses out of 700 total verses of the Gita are
selected for this introductory correspondence course for the
beginners and busy people as well asfor the daily reading of the
Gita.
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