Bhagavad Gītā (Hymn to the Lord)

Abstract

Like Mahātma Gandhi who wrote, “to me the Bhagavād Gītā became an infallible guide to conduct. It became my dictionary of daily references…and I turned to this dictionary for a ready solution  to all my troubles and trials”, thousands of generations of Hindus, all social classes, during more than 2.500 years, have found religious inspirations and moral comfort in this little work of no more than 650 verses; and today, many Christians, in India and throughout the world, find also in the Bhagavād Gītā new light  to enrich their faith in the words of Jesus Christ, while, at the same time, the words of the Hindu text is enriched when read on the light of the Gospel. The article solely pretends to introduce the reader to the foundation of the whole Bhakti Movement in which the devotee discovers a personal God, immanent and transcendent, with whom he can enter in an intimate personal relation, far from the other great monistic movements of Hinduism.