Bhagavad-gita, comprised of 700 Sanskrit verses, this is India’s single most important literary and philososphical contribution. It stands unrivalled as a timeless classic its message just as valid and relevant today as 5,000 years ago when it was first spoken and recorded.

Sometimes called Gitopanishad (as the essence of the 108 Upanishads), Bhagavad-gita is regarded as the most important book of the Vedic literature, the vast body of ancient knowledge which is the foundation of Vedic culture, philosophy and spirituality.

Bhagavad-gita gives a glimpse into India’s historical past in the glory days of Vedic civilization, but while archeologists and anthropologists dig and sift earth for bones and artifacts of that period, the spiritual substance of the Vedic age continues to live on in the immortal words of Bhagavad-gita and in the lives of persons who follow its meaning.

Great thinkers of the Western world have studied Bhagavad-gita the American transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, the Russian writer Tolstoy, Goethe, Carl Jung, Albert Einstein, Dr. Albert Schweizer, Hermann Hesse, Rudolph Steiner, Aldous Huxley and many more.