On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, the warrior Arjuna's crisis of conscience over killing his own kinsmen prompts the god Krishna to expound duty, the soul's immortality, and paths to liberation.
Books that mention Bhagavad Gita (4)
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger: “Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender... - 'Bhagavad Gita.' (quotation on Seymour and Buddy's door)”
Cosmos by Alexander von Humboldt: “Quote from the Bhagavad Gita cited via Lawrence and Oppenheimer, used in the book's discussion of Oppenheimer and nuclear weapons.”
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy: “And supposedly Oppenheimer quoted from the Bhagavad Gita but I think the Sanskrit word for Time came out Death or maybe the other way around.”
Babel by R. F. Kuang: “I'm currently working on a better Latin version of the Bhagavad Gita”