WHAT IS THE BHAGAVAD-GITA?

The Bhagavad-gita is an ancient philosophical classic that offers insights about life and love, about yoga and spirituality, soul, intelligence and mind, God and eternity, hope and happiness. It has been read and respected by many of the greatest thinkers of the world. If offers transformational wisdom that can help us tap our latent spiritual potential and bring out the divine spark within us, for our and others' ultimate good.

WHY DID KRISHNA CHOOSE A BATTLEFIELD TO ENLIGHTEN ARJUNA?

In addition to being a historical fact, the setting of Gita signifies a deeper conflict within our consciousness. Within every human psyche is a lower self-represented by the Kauravas, who fought against Arjuna and his brothers, the Pandavas. There is also a higher self-represented by Arjuna and the other Pandavas. The war thus represents a strife between virtue and vice, between foolishness and intelligence within our hearts.

Arjuna's breakdown before the Bhagavad Gita was spoken signifies our own bewilderment about right and wrong in the face of intractable perplexity and Krishna's instruction illuminates for us the path of the highest morality based on selfless devotion to God. Arjuna's eventual victory after enlightenment represents the potency of the divine wisdom of Bhagavad Gita to empower us to ultimately triumph over our lower nature and achieve inner fulfillment in this life and eternal joyful life thereafter.

WHAT IS THE BHAGAVAD-GITA?

The Bhagavad-gita is an ancient philosophical classic that offers insights about life and love, about yoga and spirituality, soul, intelligence and mind, God and eternity, hope and happiness. It has been read and respected by many of the greatest thinkers of the world. If offers transformational wisdom that can help us tap our latent spiritual potential and bring out the divine spark within us, for our and others' ultimate good.