There have been more than 200 English translations of the BHAGAVAD GITA, the sixth book in India's national epic, The Mahabharata. It has been treasured by American writers from Thoreau and Emerson to T.S. Eliot, who called it the greatest philosophical poem in world literature. This inspired translation by Stephen Mitchell, who possesses an absolute literary genius for translating ancient texts, may be the best one yet. Now in paper.