کتاب The BhagavadGita  Krishnas Counsel in Time of War Original The BhagavadGita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century AD One of the great classics of world literature it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau Mahatma Gandhi and TS Eliot most recently it formed the core of Peter Brooks celebrated production of the Mahabharata