Die englische Luxusausgabe, gebunden mit Goldprägung ;-)

"Rezensent aus Tuzla Bosnia and Herzegovina:
This book has one of the best layouts I have encountered. It has original Sanskrit text in Devanagari, Roman transcription with diacritic marks, word-for-word translation, verse translation, and purport. It has also beautiful pictures and I like the practice of using diacritic marks every time a Sanskrit name or a term is cited. Unfortunately these are the only good things that I can tell about it.

First of all, this is not a book about Bhagavad Gita; this is a book against all those ignorant mayavadis (followers of Shankaracharya) and all the others who think differently than the author. You cannot read a few pages without finding his attacks on others views, which is the primary reason I do not like this book.

Then, it is highly unreliable, as you could expect from sectarian literature. I wouldn't mind it so much if the author had restrained his comments only to purports. But you cannot ignore purport and read only translation because it is also biased. Even word-for-word translation is unreliable and biased.

Ignoring purports, verse translation, and word-for-word translation, there remain only Sanskrit text, Roman transcription and pictures which are not enough to justify buying this book.

Instead, if you are interested in Sanskrit, as I am, try The Bhagavad Gita by Winthrop Sargeant to hear what Krishna really said. If you are not interested in Sanskrit, there are many, many other translations better than this one."