Srimad Bhagavad-gita contains the essential meanings given in the commentaries of Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti ?hakura and Srila Bhaktivinoda ?hakura. It is further illuminated by the exegesis of Srila Bhaktivedanta Naraya?a Gosvami Maharaja. This translation is complimentary to the authoritative and popular Bhagavad-gita As It Is by Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Svami Prabhupada.
In the forward, Srila Bhaktivedanta Vamana Gosvami Maharaja writes:
?To understand the actual conclusions of Srimad Bhagavad-gita and to philosophically deliberate upon them, one must take shelter of the instructions of the previous acaryas and follow those instructions. One will then be able to perceive and realize the inner intention of the Gita. A subject becomes easy to understand if the author himself gives an explanation, or commentary, otherwise one?s own understanding of the subject will naturally be tainted by the four defects: error, illusion, imperfect sense perception, and deception. Consequently, one cannot possibly understand the intention of the Gita unless one takes shelter of the realized truth imparted by the sages who know past, present and future, and the previous acaryas within the disciplic succession, who are devoid of such faults. There is no other way.?






In his introduction to his Rasika-ra?jana commentary on the Gita, jagad-guru Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinoda ?hakura writes,
?The most compassionate Bhagavan Sri K???a, whose words always hold true, spoke Srimad Bhagavad-gita, which is an investigation into the essential import of all the Vedas, to His friend, Arjuna, to deliver the entire world. These instructions of the Gita are the only means to deliver the world.?