Bhagavad-gita Page

The Bhagavad-gita. It looks like a book. Well, yeah it is a book, but inside this book . . .

Bhagavad-gita. Is it a conversation between Krishna and Arjuna on a battlefield over five thousand years ago? Well, yeah. How is that relevant to us? What did they talk about?

Arjuna had a problem. He was getting ready to fight a war, and at the last minute, when all the armies were already on the battlefield, he decided he didn’t want to fight anymore.

He had family on the other side. Friends. His teachers were over there. his grandfather was over there. all of a sudden, the idea of fighting them all to the death was the last thing Arjuna wanted to do:

"Killing is wrong. I shouldn’t be here. I should just go away, or just let them kill me. . ."

Sounds nice. Arjuna was a peaceful man. He didn’t want to hurt anybody. But his friend, Krishna, had a whole different perspective.

He said, "First of all, Arjuna, you’re not that body. Body and soul are different. You can’t kill the soul. None of these personalities is going to stop existing, ever—not you, not me, all these warriors. . .

"At the same time, it’s My plan that everyone here is going to die—at least their temporary bodies are going to come to an end—and I've already done it. it’s a done deal.

All you need to do is be My instrument for getting the job done."

Then Krishna explains everything to Arjuna. And I mean everything. The nature of the soul. How the soul is different from the body. How did all these eternal souls wind up in temporary bodies. What are we supposed to do in this world. Are we supposed to stay here forever? Who is God, and what does He have to say about all this?

Bhagavad-gita (literally, the song of God). Krishna telling it like it is. Always relevant. You got questions, at least, really good philosophical ones? Bhagavad-gita has a lot of really good philosophical answers.

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It looks like a book, but there’s a lot to it. it’s actually a whole lifestyle. Is that OK?