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books on Gandhiji and the Gita possibly including Radhakrishnans' Bhagavad-gita.
However, we should be justifiably proud and happy that the Bhagavadgita's ever expanding popularity is partly due to the translators and partly due to the faith that our leaders like Gandhiji, Aurobindo Ghosh, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and others had in it. Even as we are heading towards the 21st century and the Communications Revolution is trying to sweep us off our feet, there will be millions here and elsewhere reading the Bhagavadgita, reciting it, finding solace in it and endorsing what Gandhiji wrote in Young India in 1925.
"I find a solace in the Bhagavadgita that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount. When disappointment stares me in the face and all alone I see not one ray of light, I go back to the Bhagavadgita. I find a verse here and a verse there and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming tragedies--and my life has been full of external tragedies and if they have left no visible, no indelible scar on me, I owe it all to the teachings of the Bhagavadgita."
