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Bhagavad-Gita Simplified: An Evening With Krishna
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 20 2026
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.14 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A warrior has a panic attack on the eve of history's greatest battle. His counsellor happens to be God.
Their conversation became the Bhagavad Gita - one of the world's most influential spiritual texts. Five thousand years later, its questions are still ours: Who am I? Why do I suffer? What should I do when life becomes impossibly complicated?
Most people know the Bhagavad Gita by reputation rather than by reading it. The editions available are often either deeply devotional - assuming a faith the reader doesn't yet have - or densely academic, weighed down with commentary and Sanskrit grammar. Few manage to simply tell the story, explain the ideas in plain English, and let the Gita's own wit and warmth come through.
Bhagavad-Gita Simplified: An Evening with Krishna is written for exactly the reader who's fallen through that gap but genuinely wanting to understand what Krishna actually says, and why people are still reading it thousands of years on.
Written by Dr Deepak Gupta, a consultant psychiatrist with over thirty years of personal study of the Gita, this short, warm, occasionally funny book retells the Gita as what it actually is: a conversation between two friends on a battlefield, in which one of them happens to be God.
Inside, you'll discover:
- Why even the strongest, most capable people sometimes freeze completely
- What the Gita really means by soul, karma, and reincarnation - and why the question is more open than you might think
- The three modes of nature quietly shaping your mood, your food, and your patience, and why simply noticing them is the first taste of real freedom
- How to act fully and still let go of the outcome - the Gita's most famous, most misunderstood idea
- Why there's more than one legitimate path to the same destination, and why yours doesn't have to look like anyone else's
Along the way, you'll meet the real history behind the Gita's battlefield, a set of genuinely surprising facts about the text (yes, it's been to space), and eleven of its most striking original images - the ones self-help books have been quietly borrowing for years.
This isn't an academic commentary, and it doesn't ask you to believe anything before you've finished reading. It's an invitation: to spend an evening with Krishna, listen in on one of history's great conversations, and return to your own battles with a steadier mind - and, if you need it, a bow back in your hand.
Perfect for: first-time readers of the Gita, anyone curious about Indian philosophy without a background in Sanskrit or Hinduism, fans of accessible spiritual writing and readers who want substance without the 500-page commitment.
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