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Salutations to the Glorious Buagvad Gita 🙏🏻

1.What is the Bhagvad-Gita?

The Bhagvad-Gita is the eternal message of spiritual wisdom from ancient Bharat. The word Gita means song, and Bhagvad means God, thus the "Song of God" 🙏🏻

2. Why is Bhagvad-Gita called a song if it is spoken?

Because it's rhyming meter is so beautifully harmonic and melodious when read perfectly

3. What is the name of this rhyming meter?

It is called Anustup and contains 32 syllables in each verse.

4. Who originally spoke the Bhagvad-Gita?

Lord Krishna

5. Where was the Bhagvad-Gita originally spoken?

In India, at the revered land of Kurukshethra

6. Why is the land of Kurukshethra so revered?

Because of benedictions given to King Kuru, by Brahma that anyone dying in

Kurukshethra while performing penance or while fighting in battle will go directly to heaven.

7. Where can you read Bhagvad-Gita?

In the great, historical epic Mahabharata written by Ved Vyasa.

8. What is Mahabharata?

The Mahabharata is the most voluminous book the world has ever known. It covers the history of the earth from the time of creation in relation to Bharat. Composed of 100,000 rhyming quatrain couplets, it is 7 times the size of Illiad, written by Homer

9. Who is Ved Vyasa?

Ved Vyasa is the divine saint and incarnation who authored the Srimad Bhagavatam, Vedanta Sutra, the 108 Puranas, composed and divided the Vedas into Rig, Yajur, Atharva and Sama Vedas and the Mahabharata known as the fifth Veda.

His full name is Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa and he was the son of sage Parasara and Sathyavati.

10. Why is Mahabharata known as the fifth Veda?

It was revealed in Bhavisya Purana that the fifth veda will be the Mahabharata written by Ved Vyasa.

11. What are the special characteristics of Mahabharata?

The Mahabharata has no restrictions of qualifications on who can read it or hear it. Everyone regardless of caste or social position may hear or read it at any time. Ved Vyasa wrote it with the view to include people,

in the world outside of the Vedic Culture too. He himself has explained that Mahabharata contains the essence of all the purports of the Vedas. This we can see is true and it is written in an intriguing and dramatically narrative form.

12. What about the Aryan invasion theory, being the source of the Bhagvad-Gita?

The Aryan invasion theory has been proved in the 1990s, as not to have a shred of truth in it. Indologists tye world over have realised that the Aryans are the Hindus themselves .

13. What is the size of Bhagvad-Gita?

The Bhagvad-Gita is composed of 700 Ssnskrit verses contained within 18 chapters, divided into 3 sections each consisting of 6 chapters. They are the Karma Yoga (yoga of actions),Bhakti Yoga (yoga of devotion), Jnana Yoga (yoga of knowledge)

14.When was the Bhagvad-Gita spoken?

The Mahabharata confirms that Lord Krishna spoke the Bhagvad-Gita to Arjuna at the battle of Kurukshetra in 3137 B.C. According to specific astrological references in the Vedic scriptures, the year 3102 B. C. is the beginning of Kaliyuga,

which began 35 years after the battle of Kurukshetra 5000 years ago.

15. What is the opinion of ancient western scholars about ancient India?

According to the writings of both Greeks and Romans such as Pliny, Arrian, Solinus as well as Megastathanes who wrote a history

of ancient India and who was an eyewitness when Alexander arrived in India in 326 B.C. was that before him were 154 kings who ruled back to 6777 B.C. This also follows the Vedic understanding.

16. When was the Bhagvad-Gita first translated into English?

The first english edition of the Bhagvad-Gita was in 1785 by Charles Wilkins in London. This was 174 years after the translation of the King James Bible in 1611.

17. Was the Bhagvad-Gita translated into other languages?

Yes. Translated into Latin in 1823 by Schlegel.

Into German by Van Humbolt. Into French in 1846 by Lassens. Into Greek in 1848 by Galonas to mention but a few.

18. What was the original language of Bhagvad-Gita?

Classical Sanskrit from India.

19. Why is "Srimad" often written before the Bhagvad-Gita?

Srimad is a title of great respect. This is given because Bhagvad-Gita reveals the essence of all spiritual knowledge.

20. Is history aware of the greatness of Bhagvad-Gita?

Historically many extraordinary people like Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Albert Schweitzer,,

Herman Hesse, Ralh Waldo Emersen, Aldous Huxley, Rudolph Steiner, and Nikola Tesla to name a few have read the Bhagvad-Gita abd were inspired by its timeless wisdom.

21. What can be learnt by the study of Bhagvad-Gita?

Accurate ,fundamental knowledge of God, the Ultimate Truth

about creation, birth and death, the result of actions, the Eternal Soul, liberation and purpose of Life as well as the goal of human existence
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