![]() Sant Dnyaneshwar realised that the Gita’s teachings could be read and understood only by a small Sanskrit-knowing elite. Krishna’s advice in the Bhagavad Gita is a small chapter in the Mahabharata, comprising 700 shlokas or verses in Sanskrit. At that moment, Krishna who was the charioteer of Arjuna, exhorted him on the battlefield to perform his duty as a Kshatriya and fight without worrying about the consequences. Faced with the might of the huge Kaurava army, Arjuna lost his nerve to fight against his own kith and kin. The great Mahabharata war took place between the Pandavas and their cousins, the Kauravas, some 5,000 years ago at Kurukshetra. Dnyaneshwari is a critical discourse on the Bhagavad Gita by Sant Dnyaneshwar. ![]() Sant Dnyaneshwar rendered the Dnyaneshwari, the original Marathi scripture, at Newase village in Ahmednagar District.
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