Generally, people read only the translation of the Gita by Gandhiji. Such a reading is all right in a way, viz., only to know how Gandhiji would interpret consistently all the 700 verses of the Gita. But to know how the Gita influenced Gandhiji’s entire life including his social, political and economic dealings as also his teachings, there is as yet no book available. This need has now been fulfilled by the present work of Dr. Betai.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ramesh S. Betai
Dr. Rameshchandra S. Betai (born 5 February 1926) M.A. (Sanskrit), Ph.D. (Sanskrit), M.A. (Hindi), Ratna (Hindi) worked as Professor at Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahmedabad (1966-1973), and elsewhere for 42 years from 1950 to 1992, and taught Sanskrit, Gujarati and Hindi upto Post-Graduate level. His specialization is in the field of Sanskrit Poetics, Vedanta and Indian Culture. He has written almost 40 works and contributed about 100 Papers in All-India journals. His dissertation for Ph.D. (1957) was on ‘Manusmriti; in its Sociological, Ethical, Political, Legal and Cultural Aspects’ and it was published by Gujarat University. He has guided research scholars also. During the Gandhi Centenary Year, the Gujarat Vidyapith felt that an academic study of the influence of Bhagavad Gita in moulding the life and thought of Gandhiji will be useful, and the work was entrusted to the author, who completed the research in more than a year, and published the book in 1970. It soon went ‘out of print’, hence the present revised edition. The present revised edition is published by National Gandhi Museum, New Delhi. The author has translated and published some 15 books so far.
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