The eighteen chapters of The Bhagavad Gita (c. 500 b.c.), the glory of Sanskrit literature, encompass the whole spiritual struggle of a human soul. Its three central themeslove, light, and lifearise from the symphonic vision of God in all things and of all things in God.

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