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• Archive: The Bhagavad Gita, also referred to as Gita, is a 700–verse Hindu scripture that is part of the ancient Sanskrit epic Mahabharata.
• It records a conversation between Pandava prince Arjuna and his guide Krishna on a variety of philosophical issues.Faced with a fratricidal war, a despondent Arjuna turns to his charioteer Krishna for counsel on the battlefield.
• Krishna, through the course of the Gita, imparts to Arjuna wisdom, the path to devotion, and the doctrine of selfless action.
• The Gita upholds the essence and the philosophical tradition of the Upanishads.
• However, unlike the rigorous monism of the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita also integrates dualism and theism.Numerous commentaries have been written on the Bhagavad Gita with widely differing views on the essentials, beginning with Adi Sankara’s commentary on the Gita in the eighth century CE.