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“The Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, said: I instructed this imperishable science of yoga to the sun god, Vivasvān, …

Many ages ago Kṛṣṇa imparted the divine knowledge of the Bhagavad-gītā to Vivasvān, the god of the sun. To the …

The living entities on these various planets acquire bodies composed of elements in accordance with the predominating element on the …

From this first verse of the fourth chapter we learn that millions of years ago Śrī Kṛṣṇa imparted the knowledge …

“This supreme science was thus received through the chain of disciplic succession, and the saintly kings understood it in that …

In the Bhagavad-gītā a number of yoga systems are delineated – bhakti-yoga, karma-yoga, jñāna-yoga, haṭha-yoga – and therefore it is …

Of all people, why did Śrī Kṛṣṇa select Arjuna as a recipient of this knowledge? Arjuna was not a great …

By scholarship we may be able to manufacture some theory of Bhagavad-gītā, just as Mahatma Gandhi did when he interpreted …

In India, there are disciplic successions coming from Rāmānujācārya, Madhvācārya, Nimbārka, Viṣṇu Svāmī, and other great sages. The Vedic literatures …

It is not difficult to understand the necessity of going through the disciplic succession to understand the Bhagavad-gītā. If we …

There are two processes for attaining knowledge – one is inductive and the other is deductive. The deductive method is …

Although the authority is acknowledged, there are many passages in the Bhagavad-gītā that appear to be dogmatic. For instance, in …

“O conqueror of wealth [Arjuna], there is no Truth superior to Me. Everything rests on Me, as pearls are strung …

Śrī Kṛṣṇa is saying that there is no authority greater than Him, and this appears to be very dogmatic. If …

According to the Vedic system, knowledge achieved from the greatest authority is to be considered perfect. According to the Vedas, …

According to the Vedic sources, of all authorities Kṛṣṇa is the greatest and most perfect (mattaḥ parataraṁ nān-yat kiñcid asti …

Vedic knowledge is not a recent discovery. It is all old revealed knowledge. Kṛṣṇa refers to it as purātanaḥ, which …

“The sun god Vivasvān is senior by birth to You. How am I to understand that in the beginning You …

Actually this is a very intelligent question, and Kṛṣṇa answers it in this way:

“Many, many births both you and I have passed. I can remember all of them, but you cannot, O subduer …