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Bhagavad Gita

Read the Bhagavad Gita online through Sir Edwin Arnold’s historical English poetic rendering, The Song Celestial. The reader organizes the work into all 18 chapters of this selected edition.

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Read Bhagavad Gita online at your own pace.

Open any chapter, move passage by passage, or listen using your device’s available English text-to-speech voices. The site can remember the passage where you stopped in the same browser.

What this reader includes

  • Page-by-page reading designed for desktop and mobile.
  • Direct navigation to the text’s available books, chapters, verses, ayahs, or passages.
  • Optional device text-to-speech with speed controls.
  • Reading progress saved in your browser when you choose to keep it on.
  • No advertising, paid subscription, or required account.

Edition note

Arnold’s work is a poetic English rendering with interpretive choices. Reader passage numbers are navigation aids and are not presented as Sanskrit verse numbering.

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Reading choices are not stored in an application account. When “Remember my place” is enabled, the browser stores the current reading location locally. Read aloud uses speech services provided by the browser or operating system, so voice availability and pronunciation vary by device.