About this project

Long ago, I set out to demystify the Bhagavad Gita for myself.

Using Google Opal and Google NotebookLM, I broke the 18 chapters and 700 verses into 35 manageable daily contemplations — each one a chunk of roughly 20 slokas. For every chunk I prepared a PDF with the original Sanskrit, English transliteration, and meaning, and fed it into NotebookLM to generate a podcast-style conversation. I uploaded all 35 episodes to YouTube, and finally produced one summary video weaving the entire journey together.

This site brings everything into one place: the verses you can read, the audio you can listen to, the PDFs you can download — a manual to walk the Gita at your own pace, one day at a time.

Pick a day. Read the introduction. Play the audio episode in the background. Then walk through each verse:

1. Sanskrit — the original Devanagari.
2. Transliteration — the same verse in Roman characters with diacritics, so you can sound it out.
3. Meaning — an English rendering plus a short commentary.

If you prefer chapter-by-chapter, the By Chapter page collects every verse under its parent chapter. Every verse has its own anchor link — you can share a single verse like day-1.html#1.1.

The translations and commentaries are AI-generated through NotebookLM and Opal, then organized and presented here. They are intended as a contemplative companion, not as a scholarly authority. For deep study, please consult traditional commentaries by Adi Shankaracharya, Ramanujacharya, Srila Prabhupada, Swami Chinmayananda, Eknath Easwaran, or your own teacher.