About the Bhagavad Gita

August 1 2008 101 Commented

About the Gita

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Among the world’s scriptures,The Bhagavad Gita is one of the most popular texts. Its popularity is demonstrated by the fact that, next to the Bible, it is perhaps the most widely translated of scriptural texts. This scripture is suited for the entire man- kind, irrespective of a person’s religious or ethnic background.

The Gita is considered as the Revelation given by Lord Krishna to Arjuna, in the battle field to help him resolve his mental conflict and was put in the present form by sage Vyaasa. In India, ever since the great Shankara wrote his commentary on it, many eminent scholars of the vedanta philosophy have given their interpretations of this exemplary text.

It is not the ancient Indian thinkers alone, but many leaders of modern times had also taken it as a text for expounding their noblest thoughts. Many books such as Tilak’s Gita Rahasya, Aurobindo’s Essays on Gita and Mahatma Gandhi’s Anasakti Yoga show the continued preference and admiration for Gita over centuries.

The tremendous appeal of the Gita is because it deals with practical problems of Life, and contains lessons that we can follow to resolve our day to day conflicts. This could be the reason why there are so many links to the Bhagavad Gita in the internet as well…

About the Authors

The Gitaaonline site has been our favorite obsession over the last 10 years. It is a dedication to our Guruji and Satsang where we were first introduced to this great scripture and it has over years taught us a lot especially in adversity as well as in good times.

The Gitaaonline blogs is an idea that has been with us for a while but we had not been able to find the time neccessary to devote to it. However, what can stop an idea whose time has come..!

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Listen to “The Gita Way”

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A clarification on some apparent contradictions in the Bhagavad Gita. For More Audio Clips, visit the Gita Audio page

Sathguru Jaggi Vasudev..

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More Video Clips are at the Gita Video page ;

Thanks to Guruji friends and Satsanghis who have contributed articles and links to this site. Thanks to Shree for all the help and for inspiring me to do the Sloka a day.

101 Responses to “About the Bhagavad Gita”

  1. Shree says:

    Good collection of Gita Links. Great Job, Keep it Up!!!

  2. Peter Draper says:

    The page is concise. Thank you for using this medium to propagate the glories of The Gita

  3. Dev Thakur says:

    Wonderful Links. Wow! Great page, full of information.

  4. Ramakrishnan says:

    Nice site. Very informative

  5. Tapan Kumar Nath says:

    Please make page for children,students and in different languages,Bangla Nepalese etc.

  6. Thank you for creating such a wonderful and valuable internet resource.

  7. S Matavan says:

    An excellent page with plentifull resources. There should be more quotes, as there are much more beautiful quotes in BG. I understand that you have space limitation. As such you might not be able to include more pictures to express the meanings but it will be wonderful to have them. Overall I like this page.

  8. Haresh says:

    The site is well managed. Please keep it up. Ask for help, because to maintain/add to this site is a colossal job.Haresh

  9. Brady says:

    Very good.

  10. Ganesh says:

    Cool & Neat. Very Interesting. Keep up the good work

  11. J Ramachandran says:

    Well researched.Congratulations on a well designed page & best wishes for its continuous developement. Pl..take out the jokes..!

  12. Tom Hackett says:

    I recently started a serious re-reading of the Gita after many years and have found your page most helpful. I’d like to see commentaries on chaps. 1, 2 and 3 if they are available. You are performing a useful an appreciated service to the solitary reader of the Gita.

  13. I like the discourses. Really a Good job done on the internet. Sitting in S’pore I read Swamiji’s 7 days of discourse. Once again excellent job eager to read more swamiji’s discourse on net.

  14. Nirmala says:

    It is very nice .Go into more detail,which is needed in this country and for the youngsters.Thank you very much.

  15. Glen Cutlip says:

    I like the physical layout and the spiritual content of this site. I have read the scriptures you refer to, and liked them, but have somewhat have grown away, as is the case with any spiritual journey.

  16. Lotus says:

    I like the good introduction. I’d like to see more shlokas, pictures and explanation. A good page.

  17. Sonia Sethi says:

    Very informative page. I like your presentation, very attractive….

  18. Sundaresan says:

    Absolutely fine and crisp

  19. Just visiting.I like the pictures. Thought I’d mention that one can download a full-text indexed version of Srila Prabhupada’s ORIGINAL Bhagavad-gita As It Is with Sanskrit verses, word meanings, translations and elaborate purports for all 711 Bhagavad-gita verses at:Yoga & Meditation page

  20. Gansa says:

    It should be great fun exploring this page and I wish you good luck for the efforts you will be putting in to add more excitement to your page and definetely it will be acclaimed world over.

  21. DiD VDT says:

    Good thing to see such a page !!!

  22. Sridhar S Govindaraja says:

    I am proud to see such a high quality of presentation of our ancient Bhagavath Gheeta. Keep it up. Good for younger as well as older generations.

  23. I like the information and the links. Another source of a set of 3 audio tapes with a traditional recitation of the entire Gita is available through the Maharishi University of Management Press Also available at this site is Maharishi’s translation and commentary on the first 6 chapters of the Gita.

  24. Chris says:

    I am pleased to find a page offering Slokas on a daily basis. I expect it to be of assistance in my attempt to grow. Thank you kindly for the work you do to present to us these offerings.

  25. Kanti Chiba says:

    Thank you for the great work you are doing on this and your other pages. May Bhagvan shower his blessings on all who are involved in this work and may you go from strength to strength.

  26. Narmadha says:

    I like Gita. I want to learn more in gita chapters

  27. Jesus says:

    To look for the truth, it becomes more and more universal. Thanks to people as you, we can have small wells of information of one of the humanity’s mystic spiritual movements. Thank you to be there.

  28. Ryan says:

    Good info, it helped with my report. More sounds relating to Hinduism and their practices could be interesting as well as pictures of temples and Scriptures

  29. You are doing a wonderful job in presenting Gita on the internet. Congratulations-Keep up the good work. It is creating good interest in Gita again. Imp: I like to know how to get the discourses on other chapers. If possible can you mail them to me.

  30. Bhargava says:

    I like most of the things. I would like to find the complete gita discourse on the net either audio file or text file.

  31. Prem Bhalla says:

    I have not gone over the page as well as I would like to. Today, I liked what I saw and heard. I have bookmarked it and I will be visiting it quite often. Good work! Congratulations !!

  32. Bharat says:

    I like the slokas-very informative in the sense that they help you to live healthy- gives one the essential wisdom that is needed in our society. A Great site which helps to open the minds of all that see it. The Indian teens of today need this kind of education in which has been long forgotten since they left india. It helps one to move in a positive directon. Thank you.

  33. Ramachandran Nambath says:

    Great site. Not yet browsed in full. What ever I have seen is great. Good luck & best regards God bless U.

  34. Mike says:

    It was really informative, helped with a paper i had to write a lot cuz my W. Hist book has one sentence involving info on the Bhagavad Gita

  35. Gita Sethi says:

    I like everything about this site.

  36. Reagan Cornett says:

    I’m using this site for a research paper. I am looking for an outline of Arjuna’s dilemma and its resolution.

  37. Len Bullard says:

    Thank you so much for providing this page. The commentary on the gita is very beautiful. I have been writing poetry based on themes of bharata, and this is very inspiring. Namaskar. len

  38. Mike says:

    I was really impressed with this home page. Keep up the good work. What is the name of this Site.. Who is the originator and translator of this gita, it would be nice to know this kind of information

  39. Megan says:

    Very pretty and up to date. ummm i think that the site should be easier to find and the poem should be listed at some point

  40. Rameshwar Paul says:

    Looking at it for the first time. Seems to be well done.

  41. Ajju says:

    Great gita talks. I like the pictures.

  42. Sugunan says:

    I like Bhagavad Gita.

  43. Baskaran says:

    It’s simply great. Good and superb work. Keep up the good work

  44. Venugopal says:

    It is a step which will aid in removing ignorance of people. More important is the value addition out of knowing Gita.

  45. I like the subject, Sloka a day and 6th chapter. Keep up the good work. Let me know if I can be of assistance to you. I would like to get the prog, which you can instal on your PC to get a sloka a day. Do you have any thing on Bhagavad Gita for children? Let me know please. Good site!! – Mahendra.. [Berlin, NJ - BalVihar]

  46. Courtney says:

    I would like a short summary of the life of Arjuna and why you think Arjuna was chosen to have this great talk with God.

  47. I like everything about the page. Keep Up the Good Work that Gurudev started

  48. Donald Frank Schanz says:

    It’s culture; which I’m partially hooked on. You do good work.

  49. Mei Wu says:

    Very helpful for preparing for my philosophy exam.

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