• Bhagavad-Gita is a classic of timeless wisdom,the summum bonum of spiritual truth.It has deeply influenced the thinking of generations of philosophers,theolgians,educators, scientists and autors all over the world
•Bhagavad-gita was spoken five thousand years ago by Lord krsna to his friend and devotee,Arjuna This great historical event occurred before the onset of the Mahabharat war between the Kauravas and the Pandavas on the battlefield of Kurukshetra in northern India
• Bhagavad-Gita originally appears in the form of 700 Sanskrit verses, as an episode of Mahabharat a great historical Epic,in which it occupies chapter 25 through 48 in the Bhisma Parva. The author of Mahabharata is a great sage Vyasadeva,"the literary incarnation of God Vyasadeva, after completing the four principle Vedas,the Upanisads and the Vedanta-sutra, decided to compile the puranas and the Mahabharat for the benefit of common people who could not sufficiently assimilated the lofty philosophical teaching of the earlier works.
•Bhagavad-gita is the essence of all Vedic knowledge and is one of the most important upnanisads in vedic literature.