Sources and credits

The Sanskrit text, transliteration, word meanings, translations, commentaries and recitations come from the gita/gita open dataset, released into the public domain under the Unlicense. Thank you to everyone who built it.

Themes

The twenty themes and their shloka selection follow the Heartfulness Gitopadesh Vidyarthi course.

Translations

• Swami Sivananda (English)
• Swami Gambirananda (English), following Shankara (Advaita)
• Swami Adidevananda (English), following Ramanuja (Vishishtadvaita)
• Dr. S. Sankaranarayan (English), following Abhinavagupta (Kashmir Shaivism)
• Shri Purohit Swami (English)
• Swami Ramsukhdas (Hindi)
• Swami Tejomayananda (Hindi)

Commentaries, by tradition

• Advaita: Sri Shankaracharya, Sri Anandgiri, Sri Madhusudan Saraswati, Sri Sridhara Swami, Sri Dhanpati, Sri Neelkanth
• Vishishtadvaita: Sri Ramanujacharya, Sri Vedantadeshikacharya Venkatanatha
• Dvaita: Sri Madhavacharya, Sri Jayatritha
• Shuddhadvaita: Sri Vallabhacharya, Sri Purushottamji
• Kashmir Shaivism: Sri Abhinavgupta
• Modern teachers: Swami Sivananda, Swami Ramsukhdas, Swami Chinmayananda

How concepts are found

A verse is linked to a concept when the Sanskrit word for it, or a form of it, appears in the verse's word-by-word breakdown. This is literal, not interpretive: a verse about desire that never says kāma will not appear under it.

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