In the Bhagavad Gita Krishna himself states that worshipers of deities other than the Supreme Lord, Vishnu, are incorrect ( Gita 9. 23 ) as such worship leads only to temporal benefits, rather than to the Lord Himself ( Gita 7. 23 ).

" ( Gita: 7: 21-22 ) Elsewhere in the Gita Lord Krishna states: " O Arjuna, even those devotees who worship other lesser deities ( e. g., devas, for example ) with faith, they also worship Me, but in an improper way because I am the Supreme Being.

In the Bhagavad Gita Krishna himself states that worshipers of deities other than the Supreme Lord, Vishnu, are incorrect ( Gita 9. 23 ) as such worship leads only to temporal benefits, rather than to the Lord Himself ( Gita 7. 23 ).

" Song Announcing Dawn's Combat " depicts foster brothers and main character adversaries Cúchulainn and Ferdia and uses 7 / 8 rhythms, pulsing drones, and Hindustani scales to refer to the Bhagavad Gita.

" ( Gita: 7: 21-22 )

Dame Jennifer Gita " Jenny " Abramsky, DBE ( born 7 October 1946 ) is chairman of the UK's National Heritage Memorial Fund ( NHMF ).

The Bhagavata Purana, verse 11. 15. 16 describes Bhagavan as turiyakhye ( the fourth ), defined in the Bhagavad Gita, verse 7. 3 as:

* Ashtavakra — an Upanishadic Sage mentioned in the Mahabharata, who authored Ashtavakra Gita.

The Bhagavat Gita, an important Hindu script, talks extensively about the afterlife.

In Bhagavad Gita when Arjuna hesitates to kill his kith and kin the lord reprimands him saying thus " Do you believe that you are the doer of the action.

In the second chapter of the Bhagavad Gita Krishna refutes the pacifist ideas of Arjuna and uses various arguments to convince him that he must fight and kill in the impending battle.

The apparent conflict between pacifistic interpretations of Ahimsa and the just war prescribed by the Gita has been resolved by some individuals by resorting to allegorical readings.

Some of which are based on Theosophical interpretations and were notably represented by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who made clear throughout his life and his own commentary on the Gita that it was " an allegory in which the battlefield is the soul and Arjuna, man's higher impulses struggling against evil.

In chapter 17 of the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna describes how faith, influenced by the three modes ( guṇas ) lead to different approaches in worship, diet, sacrifice, austerity and charity.

Other episodes of the Mahabharata – Indralokâgama, and three others ( Berlin, 1824 ); Diluvium, and three others ( Berlin, 1829 ); a new edition of Nala ( Berlin, 1832 ) – followed in due course, all of which, with A. W. Schlegel's edition of the Bhagavad Gita ( 1823 ), proved excellent aids in initiating the early student into the reading of Sanskrit texts.

These include the epic battle of Mahabharata at Kurukshetra mentioned in the Hindu mythology ( including the recital of the Bhagavad Gita by Krishna ), and the three battles of Panipat.

Moreover, Hindus have found it easier to focus on anthropmorphic icons, because Lord Krishna said in the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 12, Verse 5, that it is much more difficult to focus on God as the unmanifested than God with form, due to human beings having the need to perceive via the senses.

The libretto of Doctor Atomic by Peter Sellars draws on original source material, including personal memoirs, recorded interviews, technical manuals of nuclear physics, declassified government documents, and the poetry of the Bhagavad Gita, John Donne, Charles Baudelaire, and Muriel Rukeyser.

One of the first and most dramatic illustrations of Karma can be found in the Bhagavad Gita.

The reciprocal love between Radha ( the supreme lover ) and Krishna ( God as the Supremely Loved ) is the subject of many poetic compositions in India such as the Gita Govinda and Hari Bhakti Shuddhodhaya.

They encouraged Gandhi to join them in reading the Bhagavad Gita both in translation as well as in the original.

Among the principal works and stories that are a part of the Mahabharata are the Bhagavad Gita, the story of Damayanti, an abbreviated version of the Ramayana, and the Rishyasringa, often considered as works in their own right.

Some 18 chapters of Vyasa's Jaya constitutes the Bhagavad Gita, the sacred text of the Hindus.

It was later adopted in the Bhagavad Gita of the Mahabharata.

Panentheism is also expressed in the Bhagavad Gita.

Similarly, Srila Prabhupada, author Bhagavad Gita As It Is and founder of the Hare Krishna Movement, has propounded the same pluralistic, nonsecular view: that "' Christ ' is another way of saying Krsta and Krsta is another way of pronouncing Krishna, the name of God.

The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico ; Oppenheimer remarked later that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: " Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

* c. 1310 BC: The Bhagavad Gita is written, according to some Hindu traditions.

Krishna is often described and portrayed as an infant or young boy playing a flute as in the Bhagavata Purana, or as a youthful prince giving direction and guidance as in the Bhagavad Gita.

"( Bhagavad Gita Chapter 1, texts 21-22 )

" He quoted two illustrative passages from the Bhagavad Gita —" As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take, through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee!

In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna, an Avatar of Vishnu declared in verse 21, that lust is one of the gates to Naraka or hell.

The most famous of these chapters is the Bhagavad Gita ( Sanskrit: The Celestial Song ) in the Mahabharata, in which Lord Krishna explains the concepts of duty and righteousness to the hero Arjuna before the Battle of Kurukshetra.

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada translates Lord Krishna's divine words from Bhagavad Gita, " Be steadfast in yoga ( yoga-sthaḥ ), O Arjuna, perform your duty ( kuru karmani ) and abandon all attachment ( sangam ) to success or failure ( siddhy-asiddhyoḥ ).

Furthermore, Hindus have found it easier to focus on anthropomorphic icons, as Lord Krishna said in the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 12, Verse 5

Narada played very significant role with Lord Vishnu almost in all Puranas including Ramayan and Mahabharat, Krsna says in Gita, out of all the devine sages I am Narada.

As said by the Lord Krishna Himself in Gita,

Furthermore, Hindus have found it easier to focus on anthropomorphic icons, as Lord Krishna said in the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 12, Verse 5,

The songs in Gita Govinda symbolize the eternal love of Lord Krishna and his beloved Radha.

However, the essential similarities between the Samkhya and Patañjali's system remained even after the addition of the Isvara principle, with Max Müller noting that " the two philosophies were in popular parlance distinguished from each other as Samkhya with and Samkhya without a Lord ...." The Bhagavad Gita, one of the chief scriptures of Hinduism, is considered to be based on this synthetic Samkhya-Yoga system.

According to Vaisnava belief, the Bhagavad Gita is the ultimate statement of spiritual knowledge since it was professed by Lord Krishna who was an Avatar of Vishnu.

Barbara Stoler Miller's translated the book in 1977 as Love Song of the Dark Lord: Jayadeva's Gita Govinda ( ISBN 0-231-11097-9 ).