I would like to share some information, which should be considered with all the consideration, contemplation and intelligence you have. 

Previously in “Notes to the Reader” under “Author’s Notes” , it was mentioned that the Bhagavad-gita was written in “Sanskrit”.  In this regard I want to tell you my story about my first encounter with this ancient language, that only remains in what is now called the nation of India.  There is a back story to this, but that you will have to read about it in another book which at this time I have not completed, “Dairy of a Gaudiya Vaisnava^[1]; how Luis Bernal Jr Transformed to Upendranath Dasa, Disciple of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada”.

It was 1971, my first day as a student of Mathematics and Physics, at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).  In the student book store, I was waiting in the checkout line, to pay for my math and physics books needed for my classes that first tri-semester.  I noticed this book at the checkout counter entitled “Bhagavad-gita As It Is”, and was intrigued by its dust cover picture of these two dazzling decorated warriors, on a fantastically looking chariot, drawn by 4 white horses who were decorated as well.  They all were also d looking ferocious too. (See photo below).

 One warrior had his bow and an arrow drawn, and the other one, the chariot-driver, struck my eyes, because he had a bluish complexion, and he had a halo, like lighting surrounding his face. 

I picked it up, and noticed on a page this strange script, before the English translation of each verse.  Never in my life had I have never seen such a language script.  I went to the beginning of the book “Setting the Scene”, and read the same 1^st paragraph you will read soon, I hope, and noticed that this book was written in “Sanskrit”.  I did not buy the book, but I had made my mind up to go to the UCLA Department of Linguistics, to ask about what is this Sanskrit. I went to their head office, and asked the secretary, if I may see someone who could explain to me what is Sanskrit.  I was going to sit down in a chair to wait.  Just at the moment before I sat down, I looked up at the wall across from me, and on the wall was this very large, poster like Box-pyramid-chart, that filled the wall from top to bottom, and left to right; it was simply gigantic.  Each box was labelled with a name of a language, with a sample of its script, and a line above the box, leading to the language of it source(s). and a line below, indicating that it was the source of a language(s). 

I looked at the box labelled English, and it indicated one of its sources being “Latin” which I already knew, in addition, the West Germanic language of the Indo (Sanskrit)-European language family that is closely related to the Frisian, German, and Dutch (in Belgium called Flemish).  So, I immediately went to the top of this chart to see what was written at on the top box of this pyramid-chart.  It was labelled “Sanskrit” and had the same script as in the book. I was amazed to find out, that according to this Universities Linguistics department, “Sanskrit” is the source of all languages on this Planet Earth. This department was not so convinced that Sanskrit had no source, because they drew a line up to a box above Sanskrit, and it simply had a big question mark (?)

I said to myself in my mind,

“If Sanskrit is the source of all languages on this Planet Earth, then what was the civilization that spoke and wrote I; and what kind of information does this civilization and Sanskrit have to say?”