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If personally I have any credit in this matter, it is only that I have tried to present  Bhagavad-gītā  as it is, without adulteration. Before my presentation of  Bhagavad-gītā As It Is , almost all the English editions of  Bhagavad-gītā  were introduced to fulfill someone's personal ambition. But our attempt, in presenting  Bhagavad-gītā As It Is , is to present the mission of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. Our business is to present the will of Kṛṣṇa, not that of any mundane speculator like the politician, philosopher or scientist, for they have very little knowledge of Kṛṣṇa, despite all their other knowledge. When Kṛṣṇa says,  man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī ṃāṁ namaskuru , etc., we, unlike the so-called scholars, do not say that Kṛṣṇa and His inner spirit are different. Kṛṣṇa is absolute, and there is no difference between Kṛṣṇa's name, Kṛṣṇa's form, Kṛṣṇa's quality, Kṛṣṇa's pastimes, etc. This absolute position of Kṛṣṇa is difficult to understand for any person who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa in the  param-parā  (disciplic succession) system. Generally the so-called scholars, politicians, philosophers, and  svāmīs , without perfect knowledge of Kṛṣṇa, try to banish or kill Kṛṣṇa when writing commentary on  Bhagavad-gītā . Such unauthorized commentary upon  Bhagavad-gītā  is known as  Māyāvādī-Bhāṣya , and Lord Caitanya has warned us about these unauthorized men. Lord Caitanya clearly says that anyone who tries to understand  Bhagavad-gītā  from the  Māyāvādī  point of view will commit a great blunder. The result of such a blunder will be that the misguided student of  Bhagavad-gītā  will certainly be bewildered on the path of spiritual guidance and will not be able to go back home, back to Godhead.
Our only purpose is to present this  Bhagavad-gītā  As  It Is  in order to guide the conditioned student to the same purpose for which Kṛṣṇa descends to this planet once in a day of Brahmā, or every 8,600,000,000 years. This purpose is stated in  Bhagavad-gītā , and we have to accept it as it is; otherwise there is no point in trying to understand the  Bhagavad-gītā  and its speaker, Lord Kṛṣṇa. Lord Kṛṣṇa first spoke  Bhagavad-gītā  to the sun-god some hundreds of millions of years ago. We have to accept this fact and thus understand the historical significance of  Bhagavad-gītā , without misinterpretation, on the authority of Kṛṣṇa. To interpret  Bhagavad-gītā  without any reference to the will of Kṛṣṇa is the greatest offense. In order to save oneself from this offense, one has to understand the Lord as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as He was directly understood by Arjuna, Lord Kṛṣṇa's first disciple. Such understanding of  Bhagavad-gītā  is really profitable and authorized for the welfare of human society in fulfilling the mission of life.
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