Gandhi on the Bhagavad Gita

excerpts from "The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi," by Mahadev Desai (1946)

8. Even in 1888-89, when I first became acquainted with the Gita, I felt that it was not a historical work, but that, under the guise of physical warfare, it described the duel that perpetually went on in the hearts mankind, and that physical warfare was brought in merely to make the description of the internal duel more alluring. This preliminary intui…