Bhagavad Gita Companion: Ancient Wisdom for the Problems You Face Today. Learn to apply the knowledge of the Gita to Real Life.
When you are facing a serious problem, whom would you rather speak to? Someone as confused, stressed and disturbed as you are, or someone with a calmer mind who can look at your situation from a little distance, see what you may not be seeing, and help you think it through rationally?
Every one of us meets situations in which the mind becomes disturbed. There are choices to make, relationships to handle, losses to accept, fears to overcome, anger to control, and moments when we simply do not know what to do. This is ordinary and human.
The Srimad Bhagavad Gita can itself be read as an externalisation of that inner turmoil. Arjuna’s crisis becomes the setting in which questions about action, judgement, responsibility, fear, attachment and life itself are examined.
The One-of-a-kind Bhagavad Gita Companion by Tavamithram puts that examination within immediate reach.
Rather than expecting you to know in advance which chapter or shloka to look for, it lets you begin with what you are actually facing: anger, fear, relationships, confusion, loss and grief, attachment, uncertainty, difficult decisions, inner conflict, and other concerns that arise in life. Seventeen of them are covered, each taking you through the problem, the principles involved, and the teachings of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita that bear on it.
The purpose is not to hand you another quotation. It is to help you think clearly at the moment your thinking is under most pressure.
Distress often makes people confide in whoever is nearby, and they later regret what they revealed. The Gita Companion by Tavamithram offers a private space instead: somewhere to examine the situation, understand yourself better, and gradually absorb what is needed to think for yourself. A firm grasp of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita enables a person to be guided by their own intellect rather than led about by uncontrolled senses, emotions and impulses, or left permanently dependent on the counsel of others.
Many years of study, analysis and painstaking work lie behind this web app, all of it directed at one purpose: making the philosophy of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita understandable, accessible and applicable to daily life.
The concern-based section is only one part of it. The Companion also carries all 18 chapters and 701 shlokas in the original Sanskrit, with romanisation, English translation and audio recitation.
You do not need to wait until you are old before you ‘study’ the Srimad Bhagavad Gita and someday learn to use it. Use it while you are living your life, when you are confused, when emotions are interfering with your judgement, when a difficult decision is in front of you, and when life tests you.
As the knowledge becomes internalised, you increasingly learn to recognise the relevant principles yourself when situations arise. The Gita Companion by Tavamithram thus helps you develop the clarity and intellectual independence to rely less on others for counsel and increasingly on your own informed and disciplined intellect.
You should not merely own a copy of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita. You should carry its knowledge with you.
Just begin.
