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Question: How to Know that Gita is Authoritative?

Please accept my humble obeisances

My question is:

How can we know that the Bhagavad-gita As It Is is truly the words of Krishna, that it has not been changed in any way?

Rohan
 

Answer: Carefully Transmitted by Great Authorities

The Bhagavad-gita was spoken to Arjuna by Lord Krishna 5,000 years ago on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Srila Vyasadeva, the compiler of the Vedic wisdom, is an incarnation of God and thus has the divine power to perfectly know each and every syllable of the Bhagavad-gita exactly as it was spoken. He dictated it to Ganesh, who then wrote it down, so it could be preserved in written form. Copies were made of the original document and then copies of the copies, etc. These copies that have been confirmed as the exact words of Lord Sri Krishna by all the great acharyas over the last five thousand years, including our spiritual  master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Therefore on the authority of these great acharyas we accept the Bhagavad-gita as authoritative. 

Plus you can personally confirm that it is the exact words of Krishna. If you will simply strictly follow its teachings, in due course of time Krishna will personally appear to you and confirm that it is His exact words.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari