Krishna teaches that we have a right to our labor, but not to the fruits of our labor.
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Stephen Mitchell, a renowned translator of the Tao Te Ching and the Iliad , approaches the Gita not as a Sanskrit scholar, but as a poet. In his introduction, Mitchell admits he does not read Sanskrit fluently; instead, he relies on scholarly transliterations and previous translations to "re-create" the text in English. This paper argues that Mitchell’s PDF-distributed and widely read version serves as a vital bridge for modern Western readers, successfully transmitting the spirit of the text through poetic cadence, even if it occasionally sacrifices the specific doctrinal nuances of the original Sanskrit. Krishna teaches that we have a right to