Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from January, 2021

Summary of Shreemad Bhagavad Gita Chapter 1

The summary of Chapter 1 of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita is the simplest yet it has the foundational importance. To understand the flow of the Bhagavad Gita conversation, it is essential to understand chapter 1 of it. Tulsi Tree There are 47 Slokas in this chapter, among them Arjun's speech started from sloka number 21. So these Slokas can be divided into two sections. In the first section which is from sloka number 2 to sloka number 20, Sanjay spoke about the environment of the War field of Kurukshetra after he received an inquiry from Pro-tem King Dhritarashtra in the First sloka of the first chapter of Shreemad Bhagavad Gita. In the 20th sloka, Sanjay told that Arjun asked Krsna to move the chariot in the middle of both the armies. Krsna listened to Arjun's wise and drove the chariot and placed it in the middle of the Kurukshetra War field under a Banyan Tree(Ficus benghalensis). This is the picture of that tree that is still alive. After that, Krsna gave a perspecti...