Bhagvat Gita is one of the prominent sacred texts of India which defines the daily life of everything Indian, spiritual and material. In 4 parts we shall explore the Biography of Bhagvat Gita from its origins to the recent times. In this Part I, we trace the origins whereby the text acquired an identity of its own – a living Guru.

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This not-for-profit educational video is based on the information material sourced from the following suggested readings for the viewers;
1. The Bhagavad Gita, A Biography by Richard H. Davis
2. ‘Sir Charles Wilkins’ in Eminent Orientalists: India, Europe and America by Shamboo Chander Rey
3. The Bhagavad-Gita for the Modern Reader- History, Interpretations and Philosophy by M. V. Nadkarni
4. Hitler, Buddha, Krishna - An Unholy Alliance from the Third Reich to the Present Day by Victor and Victoria Trimondi
5. Yoga in the Third Reich. Concepts, Contrasts, Consequences by Mathias Tietke
6. The Nay Science : A History of German Indology by Vishwa Adluri, JoydeepBagchee
7. Wilkins, Kasinatha, Hastings, and the First English Bhagavad Gita by Richard Davis
8. Corrigibility, Allegory, Universality : A History of the Gita’s transnational reception, 1785-1945 by Mishka Sinha
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