BG 04.03 sa evayam maya te 'dya... cited

Expressions researched:
"That very ancient science of the relationship with the Supreme is today told by Me to you" |"because you are My devotee as well as My friend" |"bhakto 'si me sakha ceti" |"can therefore understand the transcendental mystery of this science" |"rahasyam hy etad uttamam" |"sa evayam maya te 'dya" |"yogah proktah puratanah"

Notes from the compiler: VedaBase query: "4.3" or "That very ancient science of the relationship with the Supreme is today told by Me to you" or "because you are My devotee as well as My friend" or "bhakto si me sakha ceti" or "can therefore understand the transcendental mystery of this science" or "rahasyam hy etad uttamam" or "sa evayam maya te dya" or "yogah proktah puratanah"

BG Preface and Introduction

BG Introduction:

In the Fourth Chapter of the Gītā (4.1-3) the Lord says:

imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ

proktavān aham avyayam

vivasvān manave prāha

manur ikṣvākave 'bravīt

(BG 4.1)

evaṁ paramparā-prāptam

imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ

sa kāleneha mahatā

yogo naṣṭaḥ parantapa

(BG 4.2)

sa evāyaṁ mayā te 'dya

yogaḥ proktaḥ purātanaḥ

bhakto 'si me sakhā ceti

rahasyaṁ hy etad uttamam

(BG 4.3)

Here the Lord informs Arjuna that this system of yoga, the Bhagavad-gītā, was first spoken to the sun-god, and the sun-god explained it to Manu, and Manu explained it to Ikṣvāku, and in that way, by disciplic succession, one speaker after another, this yoga system has been coming down. But in the course of time it has become lost. Consequently the Lord has to speak it again, this time to Arjuna on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra.