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    By reading and understanding the Bhagavad Gita, one achieves both spiritual and material benefits. The Gita provides liberation from birth and death, knowledge about one's true spiritual nature, and protection from Krishna. Even those excluded from Vedic studies, like women and lower castes, can gain these benefits by reading the Gita. Most importantly, one becomes very dear to Krishna by understanding and following the teachings of the Gita.

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    By reading and understanding the Bhagavad Gita, one achieves both spiritual and material benefits. The Gita provides liberation from birth and death, knowledge about one's true spiritual nature, and protection from Krishna. Even those excluded from Vedic studies, like women and lower castes, can gain these benefits by reading the Gita. Most importantly, one becomes very dear to Krishna by understanding and following the teachings of the Gita.

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    By reading and understanding the Bhagavad Gita, one achieves both spiritual and material benefits. The Gita provides liberation from birth and death, knowledge about one's true spiritual nature, and protection from Krishna. Even those excluded from Vedic studies, like women and lower castes, can gain these benefits by reading the Gita. Most importantly, one becomes very dear to Krishna by understanding and following the teachings of the Gita.

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    BENEFITS OF BHAGAVAD GITA

    1. vedeṣu yajñeṣu tapaḥsu caiva


    dāneṣu yat puṇya-phalaṁ pradiṣṭam
    atyeti tat sarvam idaṁ viditvā
    yogī paraṁ sthānam upaiti cādyam.
    whatever benefits one may get by studying Vedas and performing
    yajña, tapasya, and charity, one will surpass(atyeti) them simply by
    studying BG.By studying Vedas, one concludes that Kṛṣṇa is
    Bhagavān. By performing yajña, one goes to heavenly planets to
    enjoy,by tapasya, one controls senses, by charity, one follows
    dharma. One can obtain these material benefits by performing all
    these activities but by reading BG, one gets both spiritual and
    material benefits.
    • māṁ hi pārtha vyapāśritya
    ye ’pi syuḥ pāpa-yonayaḥ
    striyo vaiśyās tathā śūdrās
    te ’pi yānti parāṁ gatim.
    • .for all. This is very important to
    Everyone can read BG as it is open
    understand because there are a lot of restrictions to study Vedas.
    Only brāhmaṇas can study Vedas because they are trained from
    childhood and have brahminical qualities. Vaiśyās and sūdras,
    situated in lower āśramas in Varṇāśrama system, and females are
    not allowed to study Vedas. Still, they can read BG, indicating that
    BG is also easy to understand compared to Vedas.Even sinful ppl
    can read BG.
    • ananyāś cintayanto māṁ
    ye janāḥ paryupāsate
    teṣāṁ nityābhiyuktānāṁ
    • yoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmy aham
    •
    Śrīla Prabhupāda writes in the purport that we connect to Bhagavān
    (yoga) by reading BG and when we are in touch with Him, Kṛṣṇa
    protects us (kṣema) so that we do not fall down or break our
    connection with Him. Bhagavān will help us to connect with Him.
    This is yoga. Bhagavān protects that connection from breaking. This
    is kṣema. In other words, Bhagavān guides and nurtures us. Śrīla
    Prabhupāda says that Kṛṣṇa protects whatever we have (yoga) and
    supplies whatever we do not have (kṣema). Devotees have bhakti
    which Kṛṣṇa protects. They do not have prem, which Kṛṣṇa gives.
    This is another viewpoint.
    •
    kṣipraṁ bhavati dharmātmā
    śaśvac-chāntiṁ nigacchati
    kaunteya pratijānīhi
    na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati
    brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā
    na śocati na kāṅkṣati
    samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu
    mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām

    BG 18.54
    dehino ’smin yathā dehe
    kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā
    tathā dehāntara-prāptir
    dhīras tatra na muhyati
    arjuna uvāca
    sthita-prajñasya kā bhāṣā
    samādhi-sthasya keśava
    sthita-dhīḥ kiṁ prabhāṣeta
    kim āsīta vrajeta kim

    Kṛṣṇa says that one will become sthita-prajña, i.e., one will remain
    undisturbed in any condition by reading BG. Prajña means
    consciousness and sthita means stable. There is a difference
    between dhīra and sthita-prajña. A dhīra is detached from the body
    and mind and is free of kāma-vāsana. A sthita-prajña is
    undisturbed is unaffected by any situation in this world. He is not
    disturbed by any problem in his life. He is almost dead from the
    world’s perspective.
    vidyā-vinaya-sampanne
    brāhmaṇe gavi hastini
    śuni caiva śva-pāke ca
    paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinah
    By reading BG or following its injunctions, one will become a paṇdita. Paṇdita
    has all good qualities, including vinaya or humility, the queen of all good
    qualities. If one cultivates humility, all other good qualities will manifest
    naturally. One also develops vidyā, or the wisdom of life. Vidyā also means
    experience or anubhava that one is not the body but ātmā and develops
    śraddhā in the laws of karma, among others. One will also see every living
    entity with an equal vision as part and parcel of Bhagavān. He will not
    discriminate between a good and a bad person and a sinful and pious person.
    A paṇdita sees that everyone is part and parcel of Bhagavān and tries to bring
    everyone back to Bhagavān.
    janma karma ca me divyam
    evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ
    tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma
    naiti mām eti so ’rjuna

    By reading BG, one can be freed from birth and death


    forever if one desires. Even if one does not desire so,
    reading BG will develop the desire.
    ye tu dharmāmṛtam idaṁ
    yathoktaṁ paryupāsate
    śraddadhānā mat-paramā
    bhaktās te ’tīva me priyāḥ

    One will become very, very dear to Kṛṣṇa by reading BG. If we


    become dear to Kṛṣṇa, it does not matter whether or not we get
    the other nine benefits. It is not important whether Kṛṣṇa is dear
    to us but what is more important is if we are dear to Kṛṣṇa.
    Therefore, Kṛṣṇa did not say that He becomes dear to the one who
    reads BG.

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