Just as a bigger Mahabharata exists in the heavens does a bigger Gita also exist?
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So the question is that just as we say that the Mahabharata exists at a much broader, a larger scale in heavenly planets so is it also that the Bhagavad Gita exists at a much bigger scale at some other level that sometimes there is some thought leaks which are there between verses so is it that Vyasadeva’s condensed version and there is a larger version available elsewhere whatever Gita commentaries I have read I have not found any references of any any longer versions of the Bhagavad Gita because if we see the Bhagavad Gita is spoken in a historical context when we say the Mahabharata is bigger what does it mean? It means it is bigger elsewhere means say if the description if say it is described that Yudhishthir met Markandeya Rishi in the forest then what all other descriptions that is described in the Mahabharata but now if they were there for 3 months or they were there for 6 months together or whatever now all the descriptions are not described in the Mahabharata over here some more descriptions have to be described in the heavenly planets so specifically it is not that the same events can be described in more details some associated events can be described or further analysis of the same events can be done but when we come to the Bhagavad Gita it is a specific conversation that is happening and in that conversation there may be some leaps of thought but overall there is a linear flow in that and the leaps of thought are also logical so it is as far as the Acharyas commentaries have it there is no reference for a larger version of Gita actually there was a conversation between Krishna and Arjuna which happened all the battle period and now some devotees give the explanation that actually Krishna approves time because the question comes up after both sides have blown the conch shell why would everyone stop writing and suddenly hear a philosophical conversation but now Krishna has sort of expanded time and within that time this is happening but the other explanation which I have also heard is that actually when Krishna and Arjuna were going to the battle field and Arjuna started talking seriously generally the first 10 days of the war as long as Bhishma was the commander Bhishma tried to keep the violation of the law of codes as less as possible so Bhishma raised his hand and all the conch shells have blown indicating the commencement of hostilities because Bhishma raised his hand all the soldiers stopped and actually there is another incident described after the Bhagavad Gita also what happened after the Bhagavad Gita was opened the war was about to start Yudhishthira got up and Yudhishthira went to the Kaurava side he said oh what has happened is Yudhishthira going to surrender so the Pandavas soldiers started panicking and the Kaurava soldiers started snickering oh Yudhishthira has become a cowardly enough but Yudhishthira is actually going to offer obeisances to offer respects to the Kuru elders Bhishma, Drona, Krita and even at that time the war stopped so the point is it was definitely a time bound event and there was a conversation over there so there is no reference that that time bound event would have been expanded further now definitely the Acharyas can expand the limits in the thoughts which are happening over there or the talks over spiritual comments because the intellectual level of Arjuna and Bhishma is high and the intellectual level of other Kali guys is less so that’s why there can be elaborate commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita and that way the Bhagavad Gita can expand now I saw in the Mahabharata they had Bhagavad Gita bigger than our Bhagavatam volume the first time the Bhagavatam and then I looked at that Bhagavad Gita Pratham Matyam so I just thought first chapter of this is bigger then I said what is this? so actually they had Madhucharya’s commentary and for each word they had Madhucharya’s commentary then six or seven of the disciples or followers all their commentaries so like that for each word there were almost half a dozen or a dozen commentaries and it was all in Sanskrit so that way the Bhagavad Gita can be expanded unlimitedly in terms of the import of its verses but as far as I know and as far as we can infer from the historical setting of the situation the Bhagavad Gita is in the semantics Hare Krishna