Bhagavad Gītā
भगवद् गीताA living dialogue on action, knowledge, devotion, and liberation.
This page will become a complete, searchable study portal for the Bhagavad Gītā — all 700 ślokas, with Sanskrit, transliteration, translation, and verse-by-verse commentary by Dr. Tejaswi. A digital scripture library built for serious study.
Ride with God —
A key to the Gītā
Every world scripture is filled with symbols. If the key to a symbol is not known, the scripture becomes obscure. The Bhagavad Gītā is no exception — it is a text built on symbolic architecture, and decoding that architecture is the first act of real study.
This commentary — titled Ride with God: Key to the Bhagavad Gītā — approaches every verse through two simultaneous lenses: the Mundane (M) and the Spiritual (S). Neither is optional. Without the first, spiritual knowledge floats without ground. Without the second, the outer world answers nothing fundamental. Both are needed for a balanced journey into the truth of life.
The symbols — Arjuna, Kṛṣṇa, the five white horses, the chariot, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Kurukṣetra — are not decorative. They are precision instruments. Each is decoded etymologically, through number, colour, and root-word, and then read on both levels. This is not a scholarly exercise. It is a set of keys given to the sincere aspirant so they may unlock the wisdom within — and recognise it as their own.
"Scripture is verily ourselves in physical form. Its pages are our lives and its words are the contents of our lives. The garb of a world scripture may change with time, space, culture — but not the content."
Dr. Tejaswi · Introduction to the CommentaryThree Yogas, one text
The classical division of the Gītā into three paths — each a different orientation of the inner life, each valid, each pointing toward the same summit.
Act — but without attachment to the fruit of action. Karma Yoga is not passivity; it is full engagement in one's duty, offered without ego-clinging. Arjuna's crisis is resolved not by retreat but by understanding the nature of action itself. These chapters establish the psychological and ethical foundation of the entire text.
Know the divine — not as an external object of worship, but as the ground of all existence. Bhakti Yoga is the path of devotion, surrender, and relational awareness. These chapters reveal the nature of Kṛṣṇa as the cosmic principle — the one who pervades all matter, all mind, all time. The famous Viśvarūpa vision belongs here.
Discriminate between the field and the knower of the field — kṣetra and kṣetrajña. Jñāna Yoga is the path of direct insight: seeing through appearances, past the guṇas, beyond the ego-structure, to the ātman that witnesses without being touched. These chapters are philosophically the most demanding and the most complete.
The 18 Chapters
Seven hundred verses. Eighteen chapters. One unbroken dialogue. The full architecture of the Bhagavad Gītā — each chapter a complete movement in the larger symphony of inquiry.
Explore the Gītā
by Theme
The Gītā is not a linear argument — it is a web of ideas that illuminate each other. These thematic pathways let you enter the text through the question that matters most to you right now.
Four ways to enter
the text
The Gītā can be approached through different orientations. Each pathway is complete in itself — choose the one that corresponds to how you think and what you are looking for.
Follow the text in the order it was composed. Begin with Arjuna's crisis in Chapter 1 and progress through the full arc of the dialogue — from paralysis to liberation. This is the traditional path and the one that reveals the inner logic of the whole.
Sequential Study →Enter a single chapter and read every śloka with its Sanskrit, transliteration, translation, and Dr. Tejaswi's commentary. This is the most rigorous mode — suited for deep study, contemplation, and those who want to sit with the text rather than survey it.
Śloka Study →Choose a concept — karma, the self, liberation, the guṇas — and follow that thread across all 18 chapters. This mode is ideal for those who arrive with a specific question, a practical concern, or a philosophical inquiry they want the Gītā to speak to directly.
Thematic Study →When the full archive is live, you will be able to search the entire text by keyword, concept, Sanskrit term, or cross-reference. The Gītā as a navigable knowledge base — every verse findable, every idea traceable to its source in the text.
Coming Soon →The commentary
in action
Each verse is presented in Sanskrit with transliteration and translation — then read through two lenses simultaneously: the Mundane (M) and the Spiritual (S). This dual reading is what makes this commentary different from any other.
मामकाः पाण्डवाश्चैव किमकुर्वत सञ्जय॥
māmakāḥ pāṇḍavāścaiva kimakurvata sañjaya
Kṣētra means not only a physical field or land, but also the human body. Kuru derives from the root kṛ — to act, to do. Kurukṣetra is therefore the field of action: the body-mind complex in which the war of life is perpetually being waged. That this battlefield is called a dharmakṣetra — a field of eternal principles — is Vyāsa's first signal that this text is not merely a historical account but a map of inner reality.
The blindness to truth asks the inner-voice: "What did the elements of obstacles and right-attempts do in the external battle of life? Did my army of troubles, struggles and hardships take over — or did the army of strong-will, right attitude and right action prevail?"
Dhṛtarāṣṭra is not merely a blind king. He is the blindness within each of us — the part that cannot perceive the light of discrimination and yet, through its very anxiety, seeks to know which side is winning. The fact that he must ask rather than see is the starting point of the entire dialogue.
The emperor of the darkness within asked the spiritual conscience: "What did the spiritual forces and the anti-spiritual forces do in the internal battle of life? Did the forces of mental strength, power of discrimination, and God-surrender take the upper hand — or the anti-spiritual forces of desire, possessiveness, ego, and the sense of 'mine'?"
Sañjaya — whose name means 'one who has completely conquered' — represents the pure spiritual conscience that can witness the entire war from within and transmit its truth even to a blind king. The Gītā begins in the tension between blindness and conscience. That tension is universal.
A living project,
growing verse by verse
This project is not a static publication. It is a growing archive — built incrementally, verse by verse, as commentary is written, revised, and deepened. The full 700-verse text will take time to complete. That is appropriate. The Gītā rewards patience.
When complete, this portal will be one of the most rigorous and readable verse-by-verse commentaries available in English — philosophically serious, cross-disciplinary, and fully searchable.
The text is
already waiting.
Begin wherever you are drawn. The full text will meet you.
