From today onwards, I will try to compile the teachings of my Guru's discourses as I go through the Gita Classes.
The Gita was revealed to Arjuna by Sri Krishna before the war started at Kurukshetra. This comes in the Bheeshma Parva of Mahabharatha.
The Gita is in the Third Person as it was narrated to King Dhritarashtra by Sanjaya as a response to a question by the King to Sanjaya asking about all that is happening in the war field Kurukshetra. Since by now most of the Kauravas are dead. King asks this question on the 11th day of the war. That is when others get to know and that is why we celebrate Gita Jayathi on the day of Shukla Ekadashi of Margashira Masa. While the war started on the day of Margashira Amavasya.
As our Guru says, Bhagavad Gita is a Personality development course given by Sri Krishna to Arjuna when Arjuna is depressed thinking about the consequences of the war in the war field just before jumping into it.
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