The Gita celebrates our highest truth, the atma . Atma means self. But atma also means God. Atma is our god-self, our true self. And since God is always one, atma is the one true self of everyone and everything.
Illusion makes it appear as the many.
Our destiny is to dispel the clouds of illusion so that our truth is revealed and the atma is realized. That is self-knowledge. Sai Baba spoke in daily discourses to the students on the Gita in Telugu, his native language. With the intention of making these teachings widely available, this book was prepared by Al Drucker in the present edition. The original discourses of Sai Baba have been freely edited to clarify difficult passages and to convert the spoken words into easily readable text.