The Bhagavadgita | June 03, 2004

The Bhagavadgita is probably the most popular book in Hinduism. The Bhagavadgita is a part of the Mahabarata (the great Epos), it consists of only 18 Chapters (chapters 25 - 42) in the 6th of 18 books of the Mahabarata. The Bhagavadgita is an interlude, in which Arjuna, a Pandava warrior, is about to go to the war with the Kauravas. Knowing that a lot of the Kauravas are his relatives he has doubts about whether he should go to war. In this moment Krishna appears to him and debates with him. These 18 chapters in which Arjuna and Krishna debate and Arjuna recognises Krishna's might became very popular as a summary of Hindu thought and morals.