In plain words
The Bhagavad Gītā came into being to root out Māyā and attain Mādhava-ness
The Bhagavad Gītā is a charter of Dharma. The reason is that He said, ‘I incarnate to uphold Dharma.’ ‘Wherever Dharma declines, there I incarnate,’ He said. What is Dharma? Dharma is to recognise man's duty and act on it. Dharma is like man's life-breath. As sweetness is to sugar, as fragrance is to a flower, so love is to man. This love must go together with morality and integrity. So, in order to recognise Dharma, we must bring Dharma in. Teaching Dharma and hankering after money: can these two go together? Dharma is not something bought with money. It has to be bought with the heart. Today all the propagation of the Bhagavad Gītā is turning into business activity. A path of this kind is never the right path. We must try to enquire well into the delusion that lies in human nature. From birth until death we live in nothing but delusions. This very delusion they have called ‘Māyā’. That is just why:
All lives are Māyā, the bonds of worldly being are Māyā, saṃsāra, that is Māyā, death is Māyā; for a life of Māyā, why fall so far into Māyā?
For this very life of Māyā we fall into Māyā, we do. This Bhagavad Gītā came into being precisely to root out Māyā and attain Mādhava-ness. Man living as man and changing into Mādhava-ness: that is the essence of Vedānta.
The Bhagavad Gītā is a scripture to be practised
For generations there have been countless millions who recite this Bhagavad Gītā.