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Bhagavad-Gita

The Bhagavad-gita ("song of God")—is the famous conversation between the peerless warrior Arjuna and the Supreme Being, Krishna—posing as Arjuna’s charioteer—at the onset of the battle of Kurukshetra, circa 3200 B.C.

Krishna speaks Bhagavad-gita to Arjuna Just what is the Bhagavad-gita?
The purpose of Bhagavad-gita is to deliver mankind from the nescience of material existence. Every man is in difficulty in so many ways, as Arjuna was in difficulty in having to fight the Battle of Kuruksetra. Arjuna surrendered unto Krishna, and consequently this Bhagavad-gita was spoken.

Not only Arjuna, but every one of us is full of anxieties because of this material existence. Our very existence is in the atmosphere of nonexistence. Actually, we are not meant to be threatened by nonexistence. Our existence is eternal. But somehow or other we are put into asat. Asat refers to that which does not exist.

Krishna explains all the essential spiritual truths: the difference between the soul and the body, the difference between the soul and the Supreme Soul (God), the science of reincarnation, the nature of time, the ultimate goal of yoga, why different kinds of religion appeal to different kinds of people, and the ultimate purpose of human life.

Bhagavad-gita As It IsBhagavad-gita As It Is by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, is the largest-selling, most widely used edition of the Gita in the world. It includes the original Sanskrit text, a phonetic transliteration of each verse, the English equivalent for each Sanskrit word, prose translations, and elaborate commentary on each verse.

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“When doubts haunt me, when disappoints stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its leterature seem puny and trivial.”

Henry David Thoreau