Which version of the Bhagavad Gita is the best one to read for authenticity? I currently have a copy by Swami Prabhupada, who is a modern day Hindu priest with biases and cultural baggage, rendering his version incredulous in my opinion.

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Anonymous Fri Mar 2 09:59:28 2012 No.2450856 [Reply] [Original]

Which version of the Bhagavad Gita is the best one to read for authenticity?

I currently have a copy by Swami Prabhupada, who is a modern day Hindu priest with biases and cultural baggage, rendering his version incredulous in my opinion.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 2 10:36:30 2012 No.2450891 >wanting a text without bias and 'cultural baggage'

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 2 10:41:30 2012 No.2450894 File: 25 KB, 230x252, 1329202073177.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Not reading in English. >Not reading books that deal with the castration of the American male in modern society. >20fucking12 You people make me sick.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 2 10:51:30 2012 No.2450902 >>2450891 None of the biases that a 20th century Hindu might have, his version is abridged and has his commentary on it. I want to read the original story but without someone's distortion.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 2 10:53:30 2012 No.2450905 >>2450856 >>2450902 Uh, just read it in the original Sanskrit, what are you a pleb?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 2 11:02:30 2012 No.2450909 >>2450905 I'm English and I only know one language

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 2 11:05:31 2012 No.2450913 Don't agonize over translations. None of them are perfect. Just pick one that's got readability as far as grammar and vocabulary.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 2 11:06:31 2012 No.2450914 >>2450909 Hopefully for you that language is Sanskrit

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