If by Rudyard Kipling

[Excerpt from Guru Kaur's blog on the Be the Woman... Private Online Community for women...]

 If, by Rudyard Kipling is probably the best example I know of a perfect translation there is, unfettered by a word-for-word dictionary strait jacket. Instead it is the flowing robes of wisdom. If is the start of a conditional sentence but here it has a more optative stance: make this your life mission. Rudyard Kipling, the author of several of my favourite books, including Kim, the Jungle Book and the Just So Stories, was raised in India. If, to me at least, seems to convey the essence of Krishna's speech to Arjun in the Bhagavad Gita better than any commentary, translation or exposition.

As a slight tangent to this, those of you in the UK may smile: I used to love it when

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