Book Review: Now Read The Gita Like A Child!

Created from the original book which is 700 verses long, this 264 pages long book named ‘The Gita for Children’ reaches out to the younger audience through anecdotes, trivia, modern music and literary analogies including The Beatles and Kipling. Children will now be able to understand the importance of a strong value system, overcome doubt and fear, and learn about the true meaning of existence with lessons from Krishna that are told to them through examples they know and love.

The Bhagavad Gita is known to hold lessons of life from cover to cover. Lessons which are essential for quality living, are easy to imbibe and provide sharpness of mind. So why is only the older generation reading it?

This is where author Roopa Pai comes in. Author of the highly acclaimed series ‘The Taranauts’, she has skillfully delivered another book kids will love to read. This computer engineer by profession attempts to create a book that children will easily understand, and what’s more, want to read.

Created from the original book which is 700 verses long, this 264 pages long book named ‘The Gita for Children’ reaches out to the younger audience throughÂ anecdotes, trivia, modern music and literary analogies including The Beatles and Kipling. The book details the lessons from each of the 18 chapters and uses modern day trivia and facts to make sure the lessons reach children. For example, Roopa skillfully weaves in the example of JK Rowling’s masterpiece Harry Potter and the many times it gets rejected by publishers before it is finally accepted, to elucidate the lesson of perseverance. The lessons that Lord Krishna explains to Arjuna can be easily understood by children with this interesting technique! Children will now be able to understand the importance of a strong value system, overcome doubt and fear, and learn about the true meaning of existenceÂ with lessons from Krishna that are told to them through examples they know and love.