Everyday Geeta

November 11, 2011 I came across a beautiful book, "Gita for Everyday Living" (ISBN 978-81-7823-520-2) published by the Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore . This is a natural subject for review in this blog. The book is a reissue of a special edition published by Vedanta Kesari , the publication of the Math. It is a collection of articles on the Geeta by several eminent Swamis of the Ramakrishna order and other well known writers. I was attracted first by Chapter 4, "Sri Krishna, the Teacher of the Gita" compiled from Swami Vivekananda 's talks in San Francisco on May 26, 1900. "You find in Krishna that non-attachment is the central idea. He does not need anything. He works for work's sake. "He is the most rounded man, I know of, wonderfully developed equally in brain and heart and hand. No cobwebs in that brain, no superstition.. "Every moment [of his] is alive with activity, either as a gentleman, warrior, minister. Great as a gentleman, as a s...