by Martha Doherty (Editor), Swami Dayananda Saraswati (Author)
Swami Dayananda's Bhagavad Gita Home Study Course is an edited transcript of classroom talks of Swami Dayananda Saraswati. It is a unique set of 9 books of over 4100 pages which goes comprehensively through all the chapters and verses of the Bhagavad Gita with a word to word translation in English from Sanskrit and an elaborate explanation of Swami Dayananda based on Adi Shankara's commentary. Each verse is unfolded with clarity in such detail as to make the reader feel he/she is sitting in the class room. "The Bhagavad Gita gives a view and way of life. The view is that the self is free from any blemish that inhibits self-approval. In reality, the self is the whole. While unfolding this truth in seventeen chapters, it also helps one with a way of life, making one a mature person in terms of self-management, to receive this vision - I am the whole." Swami Dayananda Saraswati