Is Bhagavad Gita is true?

The Bhagavad Gita is entirely representational and highly symbolic. There is no real battlefield or fight to be won; the entire text is a representation of the battle that goes on in our minds.
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Is the Bhagavad Gita part of the Mahabharata True or false?

The Bhagavad Gita, or The Gita as it is popularly known, is part of the epic Mahabharata. The epic describes the war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas on the battlefield of Kuru-kshetra. The Gita is the discourse given by Krishna to Arjuna just before the war is about to begin. Krishna is identified as God.
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Is Bhagavad Gita a scientific?

The scriptures in ancient India were penned with extraordinary scientific temperament. The Bhagavad Gita, among all, is studied, analyzed and interpreted the most. Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect, and ego—all together these eight constitute My separated material energies.
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Where is the real Gita?

Over a billion people hold Bhagavad Gita in highest esteem, which encompasses the entire Vedic thought. Oldest manuscript of Gita, circa 1492, is with British in Bodleian Library, Oxford University."
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Is Bhagavad Gita fiction?

God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita is a posthumously published non-fiction book by the Indian yogi and guru Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952).
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Who wrote the Geeta?

Another Hindu legend states that Vyasa narrated it while the lord Ganesha broke one of his tusks and wrote down the Mahabharata along with the Bhagavad Gita.
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What language did Krishna speak?

Originally Answered: Which language did Krishna speak? Sanskrit! It's God's language. All Vedic scriptures are mostly written in Sanskrit.
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What is death according to Bhagavad?

This is the basic instruction in Bhagavad Gita. When death comes, all our subtle desires dissolve in our mind, and that mind carries us to a new body. Just like the air carries aroma of a flower from one place to the other, the subtle body carries the soul from one body to the other.
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Does Bhagavad Gita have all answers?

It contains all the answers that one needs because it deals with the final need which makes a person complete. When Arjuna was horrified thinking about the grave consequences of Kurukshetra battle, he approached his friend Krishna.
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What did Albert Einstein say about Bhagavad Gita?

The blog of Sivana East claims that Albert Einstein said: When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.
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How ancient is Bhagavad Gita?

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat attended a meeting organised by the Jiyo Gita Parivar and other Hindu religious groups last week that said the Gita was composed 5,151 years ago, but the history wing of the RSS pegs the age of the sacred text two years later at 5,153 years.
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When was Bhagavad Gita written?

The Bhagavadgita is an episode recorded in the Mahabharata, a Sanskrit epic poem of ancient India. It is an influential religious text in Hinduism that takes the form of a dialogue between Prince Arjuna and Krishna, an avatar of the Hindu deity Vishnu. It was likely composed in the 1st or 2nd century CE.
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Is Bhagavad Gita part of Ramayana?

Bhagavad Gita is not a part of Ramayana. It is an epic and it is a Holly book for Hindu literature.
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How Bhagavad Gita was written?

The final form of the Bhagavad Gita comprises 18 chapters which have 700 verses -- 574 by Krishna, 84 by Arjuna, 41 by Sanjaya, and 1 by Dhritarashtra. The Gita is written in the form of a conversation and it supposedly takes place within a 90-minute span as soldiers on both sides wait for the war to begin.
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How much time did Lord Krishna take in completing the Gita?

How many minutes did Lord Krishna take in completing the Gita? Jai Sriman Narayana!!! It took 45 Minutes for lord Krishna to speak all the 700 Verses of Bhagavad Gita. The historical setting of the Bhagavad-Gita is a battlefield on the plain of Kurukshetra.
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Can I read Gita in bed?

Originally Answered: Can we read bhagvat gita in app while sitting on bed ? Yes You Can. The good thing about Indian/Hindu Scriptures is that there is no requirements of specific environments/postures to read them.
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Is Bhagavad Gita really helpful?

Srimad Bhagavad Gita teaches you how to handle that knowledge. It not only inculcates in you, the right and unbiased perspective of observing and knowing your own self as well as the entire creation but also teaches you how to handle that knowledge acquired through such observance.
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Why we should not read Bhagavad Gita?

Why do most people not read the Bhagavad Gita? Basically because no one is telling them to. Other religions have their own scriptures, which their children are forced to read and learn so they are not going to read Bhagavad Gita, and Hindus themselves don't consider it necessary. It is irrelevant in passing exams.
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What is the size of a soul?

Soul is described as the flame of the size of thumb, which is said to exist between the eye brows physically, or in the heart of all emotionally, but its exact location is uncertain. It has no physical or mental dimensions as such, other than as a mere reflection or an idea in the mind.
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What happens after death to soul?

After death, the soul is brought for judgment. Those who have led pristine lives enter immediately into the Olam Haba or world to come. Most do not enter the world to come immediately, but experience a period of reflection of their earthly actions and are made aware of what they have done wrong.
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What is soul according to Geeta?

The ancient Hindu scripture, Bhagavad Gita establishes soul (Jivatma) as a triad of Self, Nature (Prakriti: material reality) and God (Parmeshvara). The inner self is Soul which bears reflections of both, the physical nature and God.
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Is Krishna real?

According to Guy Beck, "most scholars of Hinduism and Indian history accept the historicity of Krishna – that he was a real male person, whether human or divine, who lived on Indian soil by at least 1000 BCE and interacted with many other historical persons within the cycles of the epic and puranic histories."
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How did Krishna look like?

The figure of Lord Krishna is depicted as having blue or blue-black skin. He holds a flute (bansuri) and sometimes accompanied by a cow or cowherd. Krishna is also known by many other names, such as Govinda, Madhusudhana, Vasudeva and Mukunda.
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Who killed Lord Krishna?

Who Killed Krishna? Jara the hunter was hunting the deer, while the lord Krishna was resting in the forest. That hunter misunderstood the moving foot of Krishna as a hidden deer and shot a lethal arrow that pierced into Krishna's feet.
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