Fools scorn me when I dwell in human form: my higher being they know not as Great Lord of beings. - W. Douglas P. Hill

There seems to be a general consensus of opinion among modern scholars that the Bhagavadgītā, as it now appears in the Epic, is not an original poem composed by a single hand, but an ancient work, rewritten and enlarged. But all are not agreed as to the history of the poem's composition.

O son of Kuntī, bound by thine own duty born of thine own nature, that thing which thou desirest not to do by reason of delusion thou shalt do, even against thy will.

Guarded by Bhīṣma, this our force is all too weak; and all too strong that force of theirs, by Bhīma guarded.