About
A map you can walk, verse by verse
Whether this is your first verse or your thousandth — what you will find here, why it is built this way, and where it can take you.
1. Start wherever you are
If you have never read the Bhagavad-gītā, begin with Arjuna's story — a man on a battlefield who suddenly does not know what to do. You will not be asked to know anything first.
If you have been reading for years, walk the chapters in order and find the connections you have been missing. If you want to speak on it, the map hands you the verses, the stories and the themes you need to prepare.
2. No verse stands alone
Every verse here is linked to the chapter around it, to the story behind it, and to the other verses that answer the same question. Those links are the point of the map.
Once they are easy to reach, three things get easier: understanding a concept, preparing to speak on it, and sharing it with someone else.
3. The source is Vedabase; this is only the map
This site is not a replacement for Vedabase. It is a study guide — a place to collect your reference points and see the shape of what you are studying. From here, please go and read Śrīla Prabhupāda's full purport, or pick up the physical book.
The source material belongs to Vedabase and to Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, who own the original work. Everything here is supplementary material standing on their words, and we are grateful to them.
4. Progress that keeps you going
When you open an account and read a verse, the site notices. It marks your progress, unlocks badges, and shows you how far you have come.
That is not a competition. It is there because most of us stop studying halfway through — a little visible progress, and the company of others walking the same road, is what keeps a daily habit alive.
5. Learn it, live it, pass it on
The point of reading is to live it — to apply the teaching in your own life, today. And then to give it away.
Even someone brand new can learn one verse today and share it tomorrow, as a reel or a five-minute video, repeating what they have learned without deviation, exactly as it is. Do that again and again and something compounds: learners become leaders. That is what this map is for.
6. Always free
This platform will always remain free. Śrīla Prabhupāda tirelessly wrote the purports and gave this one book to the world, and it has changed millions of lives.
There are many versions of the Bhagavad-gītā, but if everybody could get the essence of this one and see how all the connections fit together, so much would change. The wish behind this site is simply that this knowledge goes far and wide.
Dedicated to
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
first founder-ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
and His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami
I built this map for myself, so that I could study. As I kept building it, I thought everybody else could use it too, and that it would be useful.
Shabdahari Das · a student of the Bhagavad-gītā · Chennai, with my wife and our three boys