I had the opportunity to study Sanskrit for two years in the middle school. Back then, I was a favorite student of my Sankskrit teacher. Perhaps my young mind wanted to impress my teacher by learning to recite Bhaagavad Geeta. But I was discouraged by the unusually long compound words in the verses. Some of the lines in the verses would consist of a compound word made up of combining several words as Sanskrit language would allow.

After I graduated from the middle school, I no longer had to take a course in Sanskrit language. In the meantime, I started reciting other Sanskrit texts and hymns not related to Bhagavad Geeta, even if I didn't actually understand the meanings. Occasionally I would start re-reading Bhagavad Geeta to recite it. I restarted many times and almost gave up each time. I always wondered how nice it would be if there was a book that would place the stems of the coumpound words in the verses side by side the compound words to make easier to recite and understand it.

Having born in a lower middle class in the underdeveloped country, where studying Sanskrit was considered to be primarily for would be priests and would not normally land one in an attractive job, I opted to study Math, Science and then Engineering. I got married and got children. I had to get a job and work hard to earn to manage two square meals for me and my family. The desire to study Geeta and to fully learn and recite Geeta in Sanskrit got overwhelmed by the need to earn two square meals.

I eventually migrated to the United Sates in search of better life. After my kids were grown up, the desire to study Bhaagavad Geeta in its original language of Sanskrit and recite it rejuvenated. I started reciting it more frequently. I casually started making notes while reading/reciting and used Sanskrit-English dictionaries as mentioned in the references.

When I started referring to my notes repeatedly, I started to think about starting a website for it on my own. But I was not able to dedicate enough time to start it soon enough. I purchased domain names and started to convert my notes into databases and started basic front-end development. With a strong desire but only with a half hearted effort, still believing that someone would set up a website to my liking before I would even be half way through my own work, I kept on building on my effort. But I could not find anyone come up with what I wanted to see. I then decided to set up this website, although in its rugged form.

The primary purpose of this website is NOT to explain Bhagavad Geeta but is to help one recite it, in the original language of Sanskrit, while also having the basic understanding of the verses. Reciting Bhagavad Geeta gives me immense pleasure and releases stress. I hope it might help some of you in some ways.

For the last several decades, physicists have propounded various theories about the universe -- from Newton's laws of motion to Einsteins theories of special and general relativity and his famous equation (E=mc²), quantum mechanics and all the subatomic particles like electron, proton, neutron, quarks, muons and bosons (including the Higg's boson), the string theory and 10 or more dimensions, black holes and the big bang, the event horizon and Hawkings radiation, the dark matter and the dark energy, and the quantum entanglement.

Alongside these discoveries, I think we should also try to understand the original meanings of the Sanskrit words that were exchanged in the conversation between Lord Krishna and Arjun like प्रकृति (prakriti), पुरुष (purusha​), आत्मन् (aatman), ब्रह्मन् (brahman), अव्यक्त​ (avyakta; the unmanifest), व्यक्त (vyakta -- the manifest), अक्षर (akshara -- the imperishable), क्षर (kshara -- the perishable), and the three गुण (guna) namely, सत्व (sattwa), रज (raja) and तम (tama)​.

I also want to understand the process as described by Lord Krishna how he is the 'seed giver' to the अव्यक्त (avyakta -- the unmanifest) / अक्षर (akshara -- the imperishable), which is the origin of all the manifested/perishable matters and the lives in the universe, created by the combination of प्रकृति (prakriti) and पुरुष (purusha​), which may be an antithesis to the annihilation of matter and antimmatter. And how the events and behaviors are just the cause and effect governed by the dynamic supremacy of the three inherent गुण (guna) leading to those very events and behaviors.

And what is माया (maayaa -- the illustion/simulation)? Are we just living in simulation? Does consciousness create reality or it is just a product of a complex state of matter?

If it sounds interesting to you, and if you have ever wondered about it, please join me and all the people in the world who are looking for answers of some kind, in the quest of the ultimate truth, one step at a time, if mankind can ever figure it out.

I highly appreciate my wife Mira Koirala, son Abiral D. Koirala and daughter Kritika Koirala for their continous support, understanding and patience without which it would be impossible for me to present this to you in this form.

Anil Koirala
Georgia, USA