Bhagavad Gita

I recently read Bhagavad Gita, kind of. I haven't pored over every verse on all the eighteen chapters. Instead, I have read Swami Dayananda's commentary. He's a hardcore Advaita Vedanta promoter, and also a student of Swami Chinmayananda, who was recently in the news due to being brought back from the dead in AI form to talk to our Prime Minister.It's weird to talk about this as a book, because the provenance is messy. Firstly, it is more of a subset within Mahabharata. This is allegedly authored by the sage Vyasa (I only learnt while reading the book, that he is Arjuna's grandfather?) who is part of this story that obviously can't have happened for real, throwing curses at people and stuff.So everything I say is a comment on the translation of Adi Shankara's compilation and interpretation interpreted through Swami Dayananda's world view.The story roughly goes like this. Due to a Mahabharatha's worth of events, the virtuous Pandavas, rightful heirs of the Kuru kingdom lost their claim…