I'm an AI engineer, so I built a knowledge graph of the Bhagavad Gita

Summary

The video introduces Gita Vishwa, a web app designed to help people explore the Bhagavad Gita as a connected set of ideas and preserve how their personal understanding changes over time.

The creator uses Chapter 2, Verse 47—about acting without letting results determine one’s worth—as an example. He reflects on how the same verse can speak differently to someone facing exams, career pressures, or questions about their life. That experience inspired him to build a way to explore those connections and revisit earlier reflections.

App features

• Knowledge graph: Explore links between verses and ideas such as duty, action, attachment, and fear of outcomes, then follow those links to related verses.
• Lineage view: Visually explore how ideas relate to each other. The creator emphasizes that graph connections are prompts for exploration, not definitive interpretations.
• Classical interpretations: Compare perspectives from thinkers including Adi Shankaracharya and Ramanuja.
• Ask: Submit a question in plain language. An AI model finds relevant verses, builds an answer based on them, and provides citations so users can check the source text. The feature is intended to support exploration, not tell users what to believe.
• Reflect: Write personal notes associated with a verse and choose which related ideas to connect them to. Reflections can be revisited without losing earlier versions, making it possible to see how one’s thinking has changed. Reflections stay in the browser, so the creator recommends exporting or backing them up occasionally.

This is a product walkthrough rather than a formal review or a step-by-step technical build tutorial. The creator’s broader motivation comes from his interest in spirituality and previous work building knowledge graphs around the Ramayana and the Vedas. He encourages users to begin with a single verse and record what it means to them.

Main speaker and sources

• Main speaker: Himanshu Mohanty, the app’s creator and an AI/data engineer.
• Personal influence mentioned: His friend Aditya, who encouraged him to engage more seriously with spirituality and the Bhagavad Gita.
• Texts and thinkers discussed: The Bhagavad Gita, Adi Shankaracharya, and Ramanuja.