What is the best way to understand the Bhagavad-gita?

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the best way to read the bhagavad-gita in my experience we learn generally in the first few years of our life we learn much more by hearing than by reading reading is important for our purification for our service to shila prabhupada but we learn a lot by hearing so if you want to do serious study of a particular book the best way to do it is to correlate our hearing and reasoning that means if you want to study the bhagavad-gita study the bhagavad-gita along with it hear classes in the bhagavad-gita say if somebody’s given systematic classes there are many devotees who have given systematic words by words classes in the gita and it shouldn’t be usually it shouldn’t be like a one class on one verse because what happens when it becomes one class on a verse then that class goes in 100 directions there should be a study of the gita there’s elaborate expression of the words but it is not just a class based on that verse it is a class which explains word by words by words so often when we start when say for example our daily bhagavad-gita classes in the temple the bhagavad-gita classes actually speaking in the bhagavad-gita class we don’t really study the bhagavad-gita we use the bhagavad-gita class verse as a means for understanding the Krishna conscious philosophy or rather the speaker explains the Krishna conscious philosophy as they are appreciating it as they are living it as their relationship that’s wonderful but that’s why the daily bhagavad-gita class study bhagavad-gita class is not the same as say bhakti vaibhava study where we go verse by verse and study the bhagavad-gita similarly bhagavad-gita also if you really want to understand it deeply it requires effort it requires commitment but making hearing and reading combined that is the best that will help us to deepen our