on the Bhagvad Gita

It is not for the lack of attempts that I have not been able to write about the Bhagvad Gita; it is simply that I never manage to say it clearly or completely enough. Maybe I should simply give up the attempt, forward people to a few of the most popular talks on the Gita or direct them to my favourite and then go on and say however more or less I wish to say. 

I heard the lectures on the Bhagvad Gita by Swami Nikhilananda; and they resonated with me completely. They were completely comforting emotionally; satisfying intellectually and they ran true thru my experiences in life. The lectures did not contradict my experiences in life, they were in completely in harmony with them and they made them complete - does it sound as baffling to you, as it did to me? Can you imagine a text written 5000 years ago, being read and commented upon by someone living across in another continent not only anticipating my experiences, but also giving them a well rounded completeness - that gave me harmony and peace and growth in my life? One would think, I am like an apple falling to the ground from a tree, wondering how could Newton all those many years ago anticipate my entire trajectory of motion and even explain it? (I am genuinely sorry if this sounds fatalistic to you - it isn't, because I am not my mind or my thoughts or my intellect or my decisions or my body - these are all subject to laws of nature, as much as that apple falling to the ground; I am not nature, I am only in love with it, totally identified with it.)  

The beauty of Gita is that it starts where you are, it lovingly accepts you - I am sure I will never get over the fact that Gita was a guidance given to a friend, and just listening to the names that Shree Krishna has for Arjuna makes me grateful for the simple profound love that He has for us, and the faith in our abilities that He has - and since I refuse to believe Him to be lying, you and I must be capable of great feats, indeed. I could wax on and rather ineloquently (given the subtlety of the topic and its beauty) about the beauty of the Karma Yoga and the stages of growth of the human personality - that, in harmony with the universe, also corresponds with the harmony and beauty in the universe. What I found most fascinating (tho in hindsight it might be obvious) that anyone who has given their experiences and the world any thought has come to conclusions that can be seen in one form or another in the Gita - whether a socialist is talking about Yagna as the means to benefit humanity, or John Steinbeck talking about the might of nature and Ishwara that moves creatures helplessly to their own deaths or any of the others. The incomparable beauty of Gita is that she takes all these ideas and shows how they fit and tell you how to use them like tools, with understanding of their strengths and purposes - the incomparable beauty of Gita is that it is Complete.