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The Author of the Bhagavad Gita

CWSA 27 · Letters on Poetry and Art · p. 407

Remarks on Individual Poets

The Author of the Bhagavad Gita

Sri Krishna is not supposed to have written anything. The Gita is part of the Mahabharata which is attributed to the sage Vyasa, the contemporary of Krishna. But in its present form the Mahabharata seems to be of later origin and many scholars say that the Gita was composed afterwards by someone and put into the Mahabharata.

In any case whoever wrote it was a great Yogi and certainly received his inspiration from Krishna.

CWSA 27 · Letters on Poetry and Art · The Author of the Bhagavad Gita · p. 372

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