The vast epic within which the Gita is set, the story of the conflict between the Kauravas and the Pandavas.
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The Bhagavad Gita is one conversation between Arjuna and Lord Krishna on a battlefield, in eighteen chapters, about how to act when you are torn. Here is who speaks, why, and what it asks of you.
Level: Simple English 6 min What Is the Gita?
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Four choices decide how you read the Gita: the order, the translation, the commentary and the question you bring. Here is a practical way to make each one, with the Gita's own advice on study.
Level: In Depth English 10 min How to Read the Gita
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Four voices carry the Bhagavad Gita: a blind king asks, his minister reports, Arjuna questions and Lord Krishna teaches. See why the teaching is given on a battlefield and how Arjuna's questions move it along.
Level: In Depth English 11 min What Is the Gita?
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In its closing verses the Bhagavad Gita names itself a dialogue, a secret yoga and a teaching to be studied as an offering, then leaves the choice to the listener. A close reading with objections and replies.
Level: Deeper English 10 min What Is the Gita?
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Want to read the Gita but unsure where to begin and how to go on? Plain advice here on the order of reading, and on choosing a translation and a commentary, in three levels.
English 9 min How to Read the Gita
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What is the Gita, who is speaking to whom, why did this conversation happen on a battlefield, and what is the book for? Answers in three readings for someone reading the Gita for the first time.
English 8 min What Is the Gita?
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What the Bhagavad Gita is, who speaks to whom, why it is set on a battlefield and what it asks of the listener. Start here before reading any chapter.