Mar 04, 2016 09:44 AM
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Devdutt Pattanaik is a well known figure in religious literature. He covers wide range of mythical understanding. As a business consultant, he was known for various linkages of doing business from ancient text and belief.
This book "My Gita" is another prolific presentation by this person. As he has written, this is his understanding of Gita. Some of us can even claim his interpretation of Gita. And, no harm doing such. Everybody has their own understanding of religious text. He started by classifying the period of Hindu civilization into two halves: pre-gita and post gita. His way of understanding Gita helps on shaping our way of understanding the same text if we read the "original" one. All this gives a plethora of literature having multiple understanding of a philosophy that has guided the life of many and of many devotees who just believe in it rather than understanding it.
Pattanaik's writing of My Gita is an open challenge to all to not to believe rather understand it had get the crux of it as far as you can implement its idea and philosophy to the part it is help ful to you and can have better impact on you. But at any case this is a good book to read and I would like to suggest new enthusiast to read it and if they can follow some of its philosophical understanding better implement it in your life and can create impact in your surroundings.