Later on, our great masters tried to explain the Gita in many different ways.
If you go to the end of any chapter of the Gita,
in the end of every chapter of the Gita it is said, what is said?
If you open any chapter you will find, it is written: iti śrīmadbhagavadgītāsu upaniṣatsu brahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśastre
The Bhagavad Gita is a yoga śastra, it is brahma vidya.
It is the essence of the Upanishads.
(Sanskit)
In modern times, LahiriMahasaya, he started explaining the Gita in a special way.
It was very unique.
As I told you, there are different bhāṣyas, commentaries of the Gita.
There are glosses, tikas on the Gita.
Countless.
There are many, but only bhāṣyas are six.
Six commentaries, original commentaries, as I told you,
but there are, later on, many explanations.
But Lahiri Mahasaya started a new way of thinking.
Lahiri Mahasaya had deep knowledge in ayurveda.
He had deep knowledge of music.
To talk of a yogi, there is no need.
Such a beautiful householder yogi,
and he gave a new thought.
Later on, his disciples, Lahiri Mahasaya’s disciples like Swami Pranavananda, Swami Pranavananda Giri.
If you read the Autobiography of a Yogi, a saint with two bodies.
He.
He wrote a commentary of explanation on the Gita, known as Pranava Gita.
There was a householder disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya,
his name was Pandit Panchanana Batacharya.
He wrote a very small handy Gita, which you can carry, a small book, but with beautiful notes.
It is known as Arya Mission Gita.
He had one institution.
Known as Arya Mission institution.
So, because it was published by this institution,
and that Gita book becomes so popular, specially in Bengal,
so it is known as Arya Mission Gita.
His wife, the wife of Panchanana Bhattacharya.
Another great Kriya yogi, yogini.
A lady.
Her name was Suradhani Devi.
Her explanation.
These explanations which I am talking of, it is in Bengali, Sanskrit, Bangali and so on.
But in Bengali script.
It is known as Suradhani Gita.
Another disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya, his name was Bupendranath Sanyal.
One among our gurus.
He wrote explanation on the Gita.
It is in three volumes.
Another disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya, his name was Ram Doyal Majundar.
He also wrote a beautiful explanation of the Gita.
Swami Shriyukteshwarji also wrote a small book verse wise notes on the Gita.
In modern times, you will find Paramahamsa Yoganandaji’s explanation,
and Gurudev’s explanation.
We have these two books, and the book of Sanyal Mahasaya, the Gita, also available.
These three books are the explanations on the Gita available in English also.
Paramahamsa Yoganandaji and Gurudev, their work on the Gita is originally in English.
And they chose English language as the first explanation, because of… because of whom?
Because of you all.
Ok?
It would have been very nice if he would have spoken in Oriya,
or the book would happen in Orya for people in Orissa.
Or in bengali, but his original, Gurudev’s, most of his writings originally in English,
some of his books in oriya, a few in Bengali.
But most of his writings originally in English.
Because he always looked at the western audience, and he felt it is a need for them.
For easy understanding.