Krishna — the divine, personally.
God as charioteer, dance partner, and friend: the Gita's counselor and the bhakti tradition's beloved — proof that the absolute can be intimate.
Krishna is held differently across the Hindu family: for Gaudiya Vaishnavas he is not an avatar of Vishnu but the source of Vishnu — svayam bhagavan, God in the original. The Gita, spoken by him, is the closest thing Hinduism has to a shared scripture, and it is a battlefield conversation about duty.
Abandon all supports and take refuge in me alone. I will free you from every evil; do not grieve.
Bhagavad Gita 18.66The Gita's final instruction — held by many Vaishnavas as the scripture's summit.
A leaf, a flower, a fruit, or water — whoever offers it to me with devotion, I accept it.
Bhagavad Gita 9.26The verse that makes bhakti radically available: the offering is the heart, not the goods.
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