The Song of God (Bhagavad Gita)
Daily Readings by Sri Swami Venkatesananda
 
The Śrimad Bhagavad Gītā is a unique scripture due to a variety of reasons. It presents us within its brief range of seven hundred verses, in a most compact yet comprehensive way, the very quintessence of the ancient vedic religion of India. It holds within its pages a most thrilling and deeply significant message for the entire mankind for all times to come. The Gītā embodies in itself an amazing revelation of the age-old mystery of man, the universe and God.
 
Swami Venkatesanandaji Maharaj is a well-known religious preacher and spiritual teacher in almost all parts of the world in both the hemispheres. He has indeed put the world into a debt of gratitude by these daily discourses lovingly compiled by his faithful followers in this book form. They contain instructive, inspiring, informative and intuitive daily readings that can help the reader to transform his activities and spiritualise his whole life. The secret of saintly author’s success in this work is his own personal spiritual life wherein he sincerely tries to live the Gītā teachings himself. He seeks to ever keep himself inwardly in a state of yoga, even in the midst of his active mission when engaged in carrying out his holy guru, Swami Sivanandaji’s, spiritual awakening work.
 
While in Mauritius in September 1982, Swami Venkatesananda began to revise his book of the translation and commentary on the Bhagavad Gītā – ‘The Song of God’ as daily readings. His objective was to expand and clarify the commentaries as well as to include many new ideas. 
 
As an introduction, he wishes to include a condensation of the talks-series on the Bhagavad Gītā which he had delivered to students of the Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy, Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India, between November 1981 and January 1982. This was prepared and edited by Swami Lakshmi Ananda. Swamiji himself completed the editing. On December 2nd 1982, Swamiji entered into Mahāsamādhi.