Lord Krishna

At the beginning of the book, it is believed that Lord Krishna is just a counselor that helps Arjuna go over his personal crisis, when he is debating on either going to battle or not. Krishna starts his long speech speaking about actions, discipline and duty. As the speech goes on, other topics are touched, such as faith, inner spirit, knowledge, lucidity, passion, discipline of action and of spirit and power. The speech is profound and meaningfully, Arjuna is the listener and is very attentive, seldom has he asked Krishna questions about what he is talking. As I read I thought of Ishmael. Krishna is the teacher, Ishmael and Arjuna is the listener, the pupil, the narrator of Ishmael. Krishna talks of him as superior, as the a god and as a lord and Arjuna worships him. At the end of the novel you see Krishna as The God and Arjuna, as the disciple.
“My nature has eight aspects: earth, water, fire, wind, space, mind, understanding, and individuality.” (Seventh Teaching)
This is one of the first signs of Krishna as a superior being. He practically states that he is everything, the basic of everything. God, the God we know, is known as everything and he being the beginning of all, the basis of all creation.
“If he is devoted solely to me, even a violent criminal must be deemed a man of virtue, for his resolve is right.” (Ninth Teaching)
He is saying, just like Jesus said, and just like God has insinuated through all of his messiahs of the Bible: If you are faithful to God, then you are going to Heaven (“for his resolve is right.”) for being good, and doing the right thing. And even the evilest of all will be forgiven. (“a violent criminal must be deemed a man of virtue”).

I was not aware of a religion based on the Bhagavad-Gita in India or in any where in the world. The literal translation is “Song of God”, Krishna is the God and his speech is the song. The book is the religious book of the Hinduism, kind of like the Bible for the Catholicism. IT is considered as the God himself speaking, and so it is proven.
“I am the source of everything, and everything proceeds from me; filled with my existence, wise men realizing this are devoted to me”(Tenth Teaching)
“I am the infinite spirit’s foundation, immortal and immutable, the basis of eternal sacred duty and of perfect joy” (Fourteenth Teaching)
It is very self-explanatory.

Sources:
Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita