Before the First Arrow: Setting the Scene for the Bhagavad Gita

Scene-by-scene background on where the Bhagavad Gita comes from, its place in the Mahabharata, and how it came to guide daily work and purpose. Most great scriptures begin in a temple, a desert, or a mountain. The Bhagavad Gita begins on a battlefield, in the pause between two armies. A warrior lowers his bow and says he cannot go on. What follows is a conversation, and that conversation has been read, memorized, debated, and loved for a very long time. This article is a scene-by-scene background guide to where the Gita comes from and how people have read it. It is not a summary of any book. The title that prompted it is THE BILLIONAIRE BHAGAVAD GITA (https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=RSbrEQAAQBAJ) by Dr. Ajarn Robert Shumake (Ajarn Shaman Shu), which applies the Gita's vocabulary to success, purpose, and abundance. To read any such application well, it helps to know the original stage. Scene one: a poem inside an epic Related book: THE BILLIONAIRE BHAGAVAD GITA by Dr. Ajarn Robert Shumake. More titles: Amazon author store.