The Bhagavad Gita is one of the most important sacred texts of Hinduism. It occurs as a part of the great epic Mahabharatha. It is timed by historians at around 5000BC.
The Bhagavad Gita is a record of the conversation between two protagonists, Krishna and Arjuna. It is interpreted as an instruction by God (Krishna) to man (Arjuna) on the path to salvation. In the process of the dialogue, one gets to have an opening into varied facets of life like religion, spirituality, philosophy, society, science, art, literature etc.
Understanding the Bhagavad Gita can be daunting and even misleading. For one obvious thing, Krishna asks Arjuna to fight while He advises ahimsa (non-violence) and the spirit of yajna (sacrifice) all through the dialogue. In the wrong hands, a call for fighting can be dangerous and thus there is a minimum qualification necessary to read it, which is compassion for others. Arjuna had this qualification which can be seen from chapters 1 & 2.
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Lord Krishna has never encouraged War. The Lord simply says that in event of war one should not runawa
y from it.The Gita is a perfect scripture and needs a guru to understand it.If guru is not available then one should not study t
ranslations by westerners . The best available annotated Gita in the world is by Srila Prabhupad of Iskon
It is easily available and can be had from any ISKON centre.
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