🙏 Srila Prabhupada’s Exact Quotes on the Essence of the Bhagavad-gita — Srila Prabhupada’s Letter to Niranjan, April 21, 1972, commenting on verse 18.66: “In the verse you refer to, Krishna says to Arjuna: ‘Leave all varieties of religiousness, and simply turn to Me; and in return I will protect you from all sinful reaction. Therefore, you have nothing to fear.’ This verse is actually the essence of all the Bhagavad-gita. Thro the Gita, Krishna describes the different processes of spiritual realization to Arjuna — karma yoga, jñāna yoga, sākhya yoga — but in the end yoga tells you that you abandon all the different religious systems and simply return to Him.” — Significance of Bhagavad-