Bhagavat Gita 101

<p>What exactly is Bhagavat Gita? Bhagawan Krishna delivered a long and learned speech to Arjuna the ace incomparable archer of the day who all of a sudden shuddered to think that he would kill his kith and kin elders and superiors for the superfluous gain of a lost kingdom. Krishna cleared his confusion dispelled his doubts and instilled in him the primacy priority pivotality and philosophy of present assignment in particular and duty in general. Arjuna asked scores of questions raised reasonable riddles and Krishna answered them intelligently eminently eloquently elegantly in an equanimous tranquil manner. As such Gita is the dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna. Krishna some say took 45 minutes to tell Gita. While 574 slokas are uttered by Krishna Arjuna spoke 84 verses. That Gita is great is not said by Krishna although He has said in chapter X verse 37 that Vyasa the Gita composer is the primus inter pares sage.             </p><p>                                         Gita has been greatly glorified by a great many sages scholars critics activists reformers researchers teachers preachers-Indian as well as foreign-from Shankaracharya Ramanuja Gnaneshwar Aurobindo Vivekananda to J K Krishnamurthy Anni Besant Max Muller Edwin Arnold S Radhakrishnan etc. It was Krishna's lullaby to Arjuna not induce the latter to sleep but to incite excite him to fight to the call of duty to awaken him to the importance inevitability inescapability of duty one's duty. It chimes with popular Sanskrit moral</p><p>             Akrtuty naiva karttavyam pranatyagoapisamsisthe</p><p> Na cha krutyam parityajyameshah dharmah santanah.          </p>