Thank you for sharing your experience. It may be useful for, say, those writing an introduction to the Gita for certain audiences. Contrary to your impression,

Thank you for sharing your experience. It may be useful for, say, those writing an introduction to the Gita for certain audiences. Contrary to your impression, the Bhagavad Gita is not a “story”. Although the first chapter (of 18) does have some setting (owing to the place it occurs in the broader epic Mahabharata), when most people talk of the Gita they mean the content of the “chat” itself: what Krishna (“some Hindu god”) said to Arjuna (“a guy”). (Starting with Chapter 2, which is where many commentators began their commentary.) Also, the Gita is in a sense a concise summary of various ideas, also more extensively covered in the Upanishads and elsewhere. As one of the verses often recited before it says “sarvopaniṣado gāvo dogdhā gopālanandanaḥ / pārtho vatsaḥ sudhirbhoktā dugdhaṁ gītāmṛtaṁ mahat” — the analogy is that if you think of all the Upanishads as cows, then the cowherd Krishna to the calf Arjuna gave divine milk by extracting the Gita from them. It is not someone's thesis or argument — Krishna just reminded Arjuna of what he needed to be reminded of (and by extension, what most of us need to be reminded of). So it would make sense that to someone who's already familiar with the ideas, seeing them in one place in the Gita would have a different effect than to someone encountering them for the first time, and (apparently) without context.