What is special about kala in the Gita not present in other books?

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So the Bhagavad Gita talks about Kaala, the Bhagavad Gita talks about five subjects. One of them is Kaala. So what is special about Kaala in the Bhagavad Gita, which is not there in other books? Bhagavad Gita also talks about Kaala.
No, it is not that when the Bhagavad Gita itself has to give some special revelation about the five subjects, which is not given elsewhere. When we say that the Bhagavad Gita deals with five subjects, that is Baldevindra Krishna’s analysis. Ji Vishwara, Kaala, Karma, Prakriti, these are the five subjects that the Bhagavad Gita deals with.
And what is special about the Kaala description in the Bhagavad Gita is that, that the Bhagavad Gita reveals the Kaala rupa within the Vishwa rupa. Krishna reveals the Vishwa rupa many times in the Mahabharata, but only in the Bhagavad Gita does he reveal the Kaala rupa. You know, when Dhritarashtra sees the Vishwa rupa, he doesn’t see at that time his own sons going into the mouth of the Vishwa rupa.
So, he says that, I am seeing that all the warriors are entering into their mouth. So, he talks about that. That Kaala feature of God, that God as time, that is revealed in the Bhagavad Gita through a mystic vision.
That kind of the conception that God, that time is also a manifestation of God, that is there in the Bhagavad Gita. It’s quite prominent in the Bhagavad Gita, but that kind of revelation is not there. So, the Bhagavad Gita gives us a visual demonstration of how God manifests as time.
That is a special feature of the Bhagavad Gita’s revelation.