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The translation of the Gita was put together from different sources by one of Sri Aurobindo’s direct disciples, Anilbaran Roy, who lived in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry from 1926 to 1964. He relied as much as he could on Sri Aurobindo’s translations and paraphrases, which were written as part of the running prose of the Essays on the Gita. Sri Aurobindo sometimes translated whole slokas, sometimes only isolated words or phrases; some slokas he left untranslated. These translations cover about one-third of the text of the Gita it should be mentioned that Sri Aurobindo did not consider the passages he translated to be parts of a finished translation of the Gita. in 1934 he wrote to a disciple, “The translations in the Essays are more explanatory than textually precise or cast in a literary style.” – Editor