Life Lessons from Krishna in Vyasa’s Mahabharata

The name Krishna, or Vasudeva Krishna, has become synonymous with the Bhagavad-Gita. But not many may know that it was not named so by the Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa a.k.a. Veda Vyasa a.k.a. Vyasa, author of Jaya which eventually came to know as the Mahabharata.

As a matter of fact the gist of hymns that are now known as Bhagavad-Gita was actually a very small part of a Chapter of Vyasa’s Mahabharata dedicated to the grand-old man of Kuru Dynasty – Bhishma. The chapter is entitled as Bhishma Parva...