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Summary: Gita as it is NOT! from: pranayama.org Sankara Saranam
Review: ZERO STARS!The sooner the followers of ISKCON wake up and realize that our world is not in Kali Yuga, pranayama is freely available and easily practiced by all, and Prabhupada was not an authority on yoga, the better. Prabhupada's commentary on the Bhagavadgita is probably the worst commentary in existence. He introduces quack quotations from Kali Yuga texts without giving any citation. He purposefully mistranslates the Vedas to suit his agenda, then conveniently does not tell the reader where in the Vedas he found the passage. It appears that he felt that Westerners, fairly new to Indian thought back then, would be too dense to challenge
him on the authenticity of a reference. He repeats ad naseum that bhakti yoga is the only way to God regardless of what chapter of the Gita he is commenting upon, when Krishna states again and again in nearly every chapter that the only way to the Infinite is by mastering the senses through a method of sense-introversion. To add insult to injury,Prabhpada then insists that his method of bhakti yoga is the only legitimate bhkati yoga. To support this, he actually renders commentary
that contradicts the sutras he is commenting upon. While Lord Krishna is repeatedly urging Arjuna to master the senses, Prabhupada decides to call efforts in that direction sheer folly. He then repeatedly accuses those who teach such a path to be doing it for money. One would think that if his "Hare Krishna Hare Rama" mantra was so vitally important, Krishna would have mentioned it in the Gita at least a few dozen times? ten times? one time? No, not even once. In short, if he so deeply loved Lord Krishna, he certainly had a strange way of showing it. Instead of calling his translation the Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, it would have been more honest to call it the Bhagavad-Gita As It Is Not.
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