When I first started out in accounting, my boss and I had a conversation as we were heading out to a meeting with a client. He told me that he judges how intelligent someone is by reading their books and writings — because their books would only capture a fraction of the knowledge and intellect they possess.

At that time this was like a eureka moment for me. I reverse-engineered what he said and thought: if I started writing on problems or subject matters that I was working on, it would help me get to 100% of understanding more quickly. It worked for me.

After this, in conversation with a devotee, the devotee says to me that the Bhagavad Gita is absolute — 100% — because it's a revealed scripture, spoken directly by God. This was another eureka moment, as it gave me a deeper understanding of the value of reading the Bhagavad Gita, or any other revealed scripture like the Bible or the Quran.

You don't have to make any special effort in reading and analyzing it — it will keep revealing itself to you as you keep reading, again and again from start to end. Both within and without.

I would have read the Bhagavad Gita probably more than 20 times. The reason why I have read it this many times is that early on as I was reading it, I had a click. Srila Prabhupada describes it best:

When you start reading the scriptures, you are preparing the ground, planting the seed and watering it. As you keep reading and reading, the seed sprouts and the first shoots appear and the plant starts growing. As you keep reading and reading, the plant keeps growing taller and taller and starts branching in all directions. As you keep reading and reading, the plant keeps growing and starts flowering and bearing fruits. As you keep reading and reading, the plant keeps growing taller and taller and will eventually pierce the spiritual sky.

Start reading — and let the revelations begin.