For centuries the Bhagavad Gita has remained the single most influential philosophical text shaping Indian thought and life. It is a dialogue between Lord Krishna and the prince-warrior Arjuna in the middle of the battle field, when Arjuna was confused about his course of action due to the immensity of the destruction that he was going to cause.
The teaching begins with the statement that the human limitations of sorrow, death and ignorance are illegitimate. Being the essence of the teaching of the Upanishad, the Gita reveals that knowledge of ones true nature alone can free one fundamentally from all sense of limitation. It reveals the nature of the self as limitless, indestructible and unborn and as the truth of the entire universe. The Gita also points out elaborately the different means to gain the preparedness necessary for this knowledge.
Without getting lost in to verse by verse translation, the book with great verve and energy plunges into explaining the central theme of the Gita, unerringly picking and choosing key verses to highlight its message.
