You know, The Gita, Sri Ramakrishna had good words to say about the Gita, which is special,

because as you know, Sririamakrishna did not put

much emphasis on book learning, reading books. In fact, he used to make fun of that. But about

the Gita, he would say, the Gita is a very good book. Please read the Gita. In Bengali,

he would say Gita Pordwe, Gita Khubbui.

So it's a very good book.

At another place in the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna we find,

do you know what the Gita means?

He says if you repeat it fast, ten times,

Gita, Gita, Gita, Gita becomes Tagi.

You know, Gita,agi, it becomes like that.

If you recite it at a stretch.

Tagi is a sort of play on the word Tiagi.

Tiagi means renunciation, which means giving up all-worldliness.

So that is the essence of the Gita, the Bhagavad Gita.

And in fact, today we will see how it is directly related to what we are going to study today is directly related to what Sari Ramakrishna said. What he said was the essence of Bhagavad Gita.

So before I start thinking we should pray to Sre Ramakrishna on this auspicious day that may this

Gita study of the Bhagavad Gita be illuminating in our lives. May the knowledge embodied here

shine forth in this very life itself and may our lives be blessed.

In the Bhagavad Gita, we were towards the end of the second chapter.

If you say the most important chapters are the second and the 18th.

But basically the second chapter includes everything.

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