The Song the Universe Sings to Itself
Introduction - The Bhagavad Gita in 18 Days — with the commentary of Adi Shankaracharya
What you are about to read is not a book about the Bhagavad Gita. It is the Gita speaking. There is a difference, and that difference is everything.
The Bhagavad Gita — the Song of God — was spoken on a battlefield eighteen days before a war that would reshape the ancient world. A great warrior named Arjuna looked out across the field of Kurukshetra and saw his own family arrayed against him. His hands trembled. His bow slipped. He sat down in the chariot and said: I cannot do this.
His charioteer spoke. That charioteer was Krishna — and what followed was not a pep talk, not a strategy session, not a theology lecture. It was the Absolute addressing the soul directly. Seven hundred verses. Eighteen chapters. One question underneath all of it: who are you, really?
Over the next eighteen days, we will walk through all eighteen chapters together — one each day, in sequence, at depth. The voice you will hear is not a scholar’s voice. It is not mine. I am only the scribe who clears the page. The voice belongs to the teaching itself, speaking as it has always spoken: directly, without intermediary, to the one who is ready to listen.
Alongside that voice, I have placed the hand of Adi Shankaracharya — the eighth-century philosopher-sage from Kerala who wrote the definitive Sanskrit commentary on the Gita and whose understanding of non-duality remains, twelve centuries later, unsurpassed. Shankara’s central insight was simple and devastating: you are not separate from the Absolute. You never were. Everything the Gita teaches points back to that.
You do not need Sanskrit. You do not need to be Hindu. You do not need to have read anything before this. What you need is what Arjuna brought to the battlefield: a real question. Not a philosophical curiosity. A genuine ache to know what you are.
If you have that, come as Arjuna. Sit in the chariot. Let the teaching speak.
A note on how to read these pieces: each one is written to be read once, slowly, in a single sitting. Do not rush ahead. Do not read two in a day. The gap between chapters — the ordinary day you live between one teaching and the next — is not empty. It is where the teaching lands.
Eighteen days. Eighteen chapters. One song.
Glennford Ellison Roberts Author — Sacred Metaphysics & Consciousness: History of the Absolute & Eternal Cumberland, Ontario, Canada
God is love. Love is truth. Truth is consciousness. And consciousness is balance. Amen. Namaste.. 🙏
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