Gita, Geeta or Geetha

The essential meaning of this word is "song" but now Gita is most associated with the Bhagavad Gita, the song of God. This are the teachings of Sri Krishna to Arjuna set in 700 verses by sage Vyasa in the great epic story, the Mahabharata. It is one of the greatest scriptures in India's spiritual heritage. Thus we can see that Gita is indeed a great name in the history of this planet. The great sage Adi Shankara said that the Gita is a discourse about the very essence of the meaning of the entire Vedas (the ancient scriptures). The aim of the Gita is to realize the highest good, to help the spiritual aspirant to end the seemingly endless cycle of birth and death and the cause of this cycle, which is ignorance of spiritual truths. Gita represents spiritual truth.

Further, Swamiji encourages the singing of spiritual songs in all forms as a very uplifting spiritual practice. In the Ashram and our Centres around the world we sing bhajans, keertans, teverams and devotional songs in Sanskrit, Tamil and other languages both ancient and modern. These are all forms of Gita (Geetham in Tamil).