>The Bhagavad Gita often referred as the GITA originally originated as an episode in the Mahabharata, a historical Sanskrit epic of the ancient world. > It's a 700-verse Hindu scripture, which is part of the epic Mahabharata. >The Mahabharata depicts the events up to the present Kali Yuga. >Lord Krishna spoke the Bhagavad Gita to his friend and devotee Arjuna at the beginning of this age, about 5,000 years ago. >The dialogues of this epic which is the best philosophical and religious in human history has taken place between Lord Shri Krishna and Arjuna.