The Bhagavad-Gita is one of the great classics not only of world

religion but of world philosophy and the great tradition of yoga. If we had
to choose a single book to represent the spiritual and cultural traditions
of India, we would certainly have to choose the Gita. A person who has
not studied the Gita has missed something significant in our global wisdom
heritage. In fact, if we were to put together the monotheism of the Western
world with the nontheistic karma-based meditation traditions of Buddhism
and the Far East, we would come up with something like the Bhagavadgita,
which combines theism with karma, rebirth, and self-realization and
encompasses global religion and experiential spirituality