| INTRODUCTION | |
| त्वमेव माता च पिता त्वमेव, त्वमेव बंधुश्च सखा waa | | |
| त्वमेव faa, द्रविड्म् aaa, त्वमेव ad ay देव देव ।। | |
| Thou art Mother, thou art Father, thou art kinsman, thou art friend, | |
| thou art knowledge, thou art wealth; thou art my all, O’Lord of Lords. | |
| ‘Srimad Bhagavad Gita’ is just not a holy book, it has alsc | |
| gained a prominent place in literature of the world. It contains | |
| divine words emanating from the lips of Lord Krishna. This great | |
| epic is an eloquent proof of the observation. As a scripture, this | |
| Book embodies the supreme spiritual mystery and secrets. Its | |
| style is so simple and elegant that with a little study one can | |
| easily follow the structure of its words, yet the thoughts behind | |
| those words are so deep and abstruse that even for life time, | |
| constant study of this Book may not show an end of it. | |
| ‘The Bhagavad Gita’ is an unfathomable ocean of wisdom. It | |
| is a bottomless sea containing endless strate of meanings. Just | |
| as adiver diving deep in the sea lays his hands on precious gems, | |
| similarly diving deeper and deeper into the secrets of this Book, | |
| the seeker goes on discovering more and more piles of | |
| extraodrdinary gems of thoughts and ideas. | |
| ‘The Bhagavad Gita’ is a part of the Mahabharata, but even | |
| then it has its own identity, which has made it more prominent | |
| than the Mahabharata. It may look to be just a narration of the | |
| happenings of the war between Kauravas and Pandavas, but it | |
| is the philosophy of life, expressed from the lips of Lord Krishna, | |
| addressed to the warrior Arjuna, defining following ideas : | |
| (i) Facing your enemies in a war is an asupicious and especial | |