During the course of a successful career as a professor of English literature at the University of Nagpur, Easwaran found himself haunted by questions about the meaning of life. In these two talks, “My First Copy of the Gita” and “Favorite Verses from the Gita” given in 1988, Easwaran shows how to make the Bhagavad Gita a sourcebook for daily guidance, as he himself did.