Krishna Art Book

Summary

According to Indian saintly-philosophers Vedic literature’s history dates back 5,000 years. The Vedas were compiled in Sanskrit, the oldest language on earth, and they establish the guidelines for a perfect human civilization. Among them the sage Vyāsadeva compiled the world famous Mahābhārata, which contains one hundred thousand verses. It is the largest epic poem in the history of mankind, and it is also known as the history of Bhārata-varṣa. The Vedas are the most extensive and comprehensive anthology of divine thoughts given to humanity, and the Bhagavad-gītā is acknowledged as the key book in understanding its conclusions. It is the most revealing chapter (Bhīma-parva) of the Mahābhārata, composed of seven hundred verses and spoken by Śrī Kṛṣṇa to His friend Arjuna on the historical battlefield of Kurukṣetra. Śrī Kṛṣṇa is revered by Arjuna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and He manifested Himself as such at Kurukṣetra to substantiate their historical conversation. What Śrī Kṛṣṇa exposes there is appraised by world renown Vedic scholars — and apprised by saintly authorities — as the most revealing description of the reasons for the conditioned state in the human form of life. Thus, on a progressive path of elaborate explanations, He establishes the different practices of yoga to reconcile the human being’s most precious demand — one’s ultimate spiritual identity.