Namaskaram and a warm welcome to the sadhakas who have taken interest in the Gita Project.

Our goal in this endeavour is to document the Gita from multiple points of view, as explained

by the great Acharyas of the past and present.

In this project, we will study the bhashyams from Advaita, Dvaita and Vishishtadvaita points of view.

We will faithfully reproduce the Acharyas’ interpretations the best way possible and only add clarifying

comments of our own when necessary.

For each slokam, we will study the bhashyams of Shankaracharya for an Advaita point of view,

Ramanuja for a Vishishtadvaita point of view, and Madhvacharya for a Dvaita point of view.

We will also present the bhashyams of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Swami Vivekananda and

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari as appropriate.

Whether you are an aspirant, a practicing reader, a reciter or a scholar of the Gita, we hope our work

will benefit you as much as it benefits us. As authors of this project, our only goal is to learn the Gita

deploy for ourselves by writing about it.

भगवद् गीता किञ्चिदधीता, गङ्गा जललव कणिकापीता।

सकृदपि येन मुरारि समर्चा, क्रियते तस्य यमेन न चर्चा

bhagavad gita kinchida dhiitaa, ganga jalalava kanikaa piitaa

sakridapi yena muraari samarchaa, kriyate tasya yamena na charchaa

Bhaja Govindam v. 20

“Those who study Gita, even a little, drink just a drop of water from the holy Ganga,

worship Lord Krishna with love even once, Yama, the God of death has no control over them”

says Shankaracharya in his famous poem Bhaja Govindam.

We hope our work will help bring all of us a little closer to Paramatma.

ओम् तत् सत्

Om Tat Sat

References:

1. Bhagavad Gita with the commentary of Shankaracharya - Translated by Swami Gambiranda

2. Srimad Bhagavad Gita commentary by Sri Ramanuja’s Gita bhashya - Translated by Sri Veeravalli Jagannathan

3. Bhagavad Gita by Madhvacharya

4. Bhagavad Gita by Swami Vivekananda.

5. Bhagavad Gita by S.Radhakrishnan.

6. Bhagavad Gita - A Handbook for Students by C.Rajagopalachari.