Bhagavad Gita is part of Mahabharata

This Mahabharata means, maha means greater. Formerly 5,000 years ago, the whole planet was called Bharata, India. India it is now called. Actually the name is Bharata. Bharata is the name given after the reign of Maharaja, one King Bharata. He was the ruler, emperor, of the whole world. After his reign this planet is called Bharata, this whole planet, Mahabharata. Mahabharata is Greater India or Greater Bharata. The headquarter was in India but it was greater, according to Mahabharata history and this Bhagavad-gita is given there in the Mahabharata. Therefore it is history. And actually it is historical because the battlefield is still existing...

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Krsna Mahabharata and Krsna God is the same person. Why do you differentiate? My question will be how do you differentiate the Krsna Mahabharata and Krsna God different? Because Krsna is speaking Bhagavad-gita. That is a chapter in the Mahabharata. So how do you differentiate? What is the cause that you are differentiating?

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25. Relationship of Bhagavad-Gita with Isopanisad:

The instructions of Sri Isopanisad are more elaborately explained in the Bhagavad-gita, sometimes called the Gitopanisad, the cream of all the Upanisads.

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26. Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagawatam:

Bhagavad-gita is the preliminary study of Srimad-Bhagavatam. In the Bhagavad-gita we understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna as He is explaining Himself. We cannot understand the position of Godhead by our mental speculation because God is beyond our mental, bodily and speaking capacity. But when we are sincere in service mood, just like Arjuna, who surrendered himself to Krishna, then we are able to understand who Krishna is.

(Letter to: Robert Hendry -- Los Angeles: 3 August, 1969)

So this is a great science, what Krsna is--Krsna science. It is simply a synopsis; Bhagavad-gita is only a synopsis of the science of God, and it is more explicitly given in the Srimad-Bhagavata. But after all, it is a great science. If we study it very seriously, then we can understand...

(Lecture Bhagavad-gita 2.51-55 New York, April 12, 1966)

So we should not jump. First of all we should read Bhagavad-gita very carefully. Try to understand Krsna, what is Krsna. Then we shall be fit to understand what is Bhagavatam. The last conclusion of Bhagavad-gita is sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja. If we can surrender to Krsna wholeheartedly, then we become eligible to understand what is Krsna. That is the... Bhaktya mam abhijanati. We, if we are advanced in devotional service, then we become fit to understand Krsna.

(Lecture Bhagavad-gita 4.6 Bombay, March 26, 1974)

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