Bhagavad-bhakti—bhakti-yoga, devotional service to the Supreme Lord.Prabhupada ›Glossary›-B-›Bhagavad-bhakti-bhakti-yoga, Bhagavad-bhakti-bhakti-yoga, devotional service to the Supreme Lord. Link to this page: https://prabhupadabooks.com/glossary/b/bhagavad-bhakti-bhakti-yoga-devotional-service-to-the-suprem Previous: Bhagadatta-the King of Pragjyotisapura, and the son of Narakasura or Bhaumasura. He was killed by Arjuna during the Kuruksetra war. (Drona Parva in Mahabharata) Next: Bhagavad-gita-a seven-hundred-verse record of a conversation between Lord Krsna and His disciple, Arjuna, from the Bhisma Parva of the Mahabharata of Vedavyasa. The conversation took place between two armies minutes before the start of an immense fratricidal battle. Krsna teaches the science of the Absolute Truth and the importance of devotional service to the despondent Arjuna, and it contains the essence of all Vedic wisdom. Srila Prabhupada's annotated English translation is called Bhagavad-gita As It Is; This most essential text of spiritual knowledge, The Song of the Lord, contains Krsna's instructions to Arjuna at Kuruksetra. It is found in the Mahabharata. The Mahabharata is classified as smrti-sastra, a supplement of the sruti-sastra. Sruti, the core Vedic literature, includes the four Vedas (Rg, Sama, Yajur and Atharva) and the Upanisads. Sruti advances the understanding of the absolute. Bhagavad-gita is also known as Gitopanisad, or a sruti text spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. Therefore, Srila Pra-bhupada wrote in a letter, the Gita should be taken as sruti. But they take it as smrti because it is part of the smrti (Mahabharata). In one sense it is both sruti and smrti. In only 700 verses, the Bhagavad-gita summarizes all Vedic knowledge about the soul, God, sanatana-dharma, sacrifice, yoga, karma, reincarnation, the modes of material nature, Vedanta and pure devotion. See Arjuna, Caitanya-caritamrta, Krsna, Mahabharata, Srimad-Bhagavatam.