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How I First Came To The Bhagavad Gita

How I First Came To The Bhagavad Gita

Gayathri Narayanan writes a personal reflection on the Bhagavad Gita, the sixth of the eighteen books of the ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata.

by Gayathri Narayanan

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