Brief history of Bhagavad Gita

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We have long had a fascination for the final answer, the Holy Grail, the Grand Unified Theory, the ultimate solution, and the quintessential element. Douglas Adams mocks this tendency in his masterpiece Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) by assigning a random number - 42 - to represent the answer to the meaning of life and everything else.

But the truth is: Time is limited while human aspirations are not. We cannot master everything so we seek titbits about various subjects. And we love it when that byte-sized chunk gives us a gist of the subject. This is why "content curation" has become such an integral part of modern human psyche and those who do it well (like Brain Pickings) are widely read.

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