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The Bhagavad-Gita is where God Himself talks to His devotee Arjuna. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. -- Sri Aurobindo
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous -- Albert Einstein
The Gita is a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Vedas and the Upanishads. -- Swami Vivekananda
The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion. -- Hermann Hesse
The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita. -- Swami Vivekananda
In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it. -- Rudolf Steiner
I have made the Bhagwad Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and formation of my theories. -- Albert Einstein
Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita...."Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The main reason why we look constantly to the Gita is that, whenever we need help, we may get it from the Gita. And, indeed, we always do get it. -- Vinoba Bhave
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial. -- Henry David Thoreau
The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization. -- Sri Aurobindo
The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice. -- Vinoba Bhave
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity. -- Aldous Huxley
Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches. -- Swami Vivekananda
Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Gita is not for those who have no faith. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think, -- Wendy Doniger
The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You will be nearer to Heaven through foot ball than through study of Gita. -- Swami Vivekananda
The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice. -- Swami Vivekananda
The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.) -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
I've been practicing Ayurvedic medicine, and I've read the 'Bhagavad Gita' and Rumi, and these are very important. -- Andie MacDowell
I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion. -- Hermann Hesse
According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I read "The Yoga Sutras" every day.And also the "The Bhagavad Gita." Those two books sit by my bed. -- Russell Simmons
I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act. -- Frederick Lenz
The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions. -- Albert Schweitzer
In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past. -- Eknath Easwaran
This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act. -- Frederick Lenz
The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In the Bhagavad-Gita, a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women, along with animals, are capable of attaining enlightenment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The essence of Bhagavad Gita is that we should always think of Krsna, become His devotee, worship him and offer homage unto him. -- Radhanath Swami
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology -- Barack Obama
To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action is forever. -- Frederick Lenz
In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action is forever. -- Frederick Lenz
In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place. -- Mahatma Gandhi
This is the central idea of the Gita- to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with one's body, mind, and soul centered at His hallowed feet! -- Swami Vivekananda
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran? -- Mahatma Gandhi
The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I brought Bhagawad Gita as a gift for the Japanese PM...I don't have anything better than Gita to give & nor does the World has anything better to receive. -- Narendra Modi
Eating chocolates or popping pills won't reduce depression.Instead, one must read Gita. This will help relieve the stress and depression in life. It will help in dealing with challenges of life. -- Sushma Swaraj
The most revealing books are the Holy Koran and the Holy Bible. The Bhagavad Gita is a great book as well, and the works of Buddha. These are the major influences on the world. -- RZA
I believe what it says in the scriptures and in the Bhagavad Gita: 'Never was there a time when you did not exist, and there never will be a time when you cease to exist.' -- George Harrison
I chose to take the oath of office with my personal copy of the Bhagavad Gita because its teachings have inspired me to be a servant-leader, dedicating my life in the service of others and to my country. -- Tulsi Gabbard
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We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for everyone attaining enlightenment. It is something that we all do. Some people work very hard at not working. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it's great books, the "Upnishads", and the "Bhagavad Gita". -- Jawaharlal Nehru
"If you die, you get to heaven; and if you win, you enjoy the earth" (Gita). Even if you die in this attempt, well and good, many will take up the work, following your example. And if you succeed, you will live a life of great opulence. -- Swami Vivekananda
Although some popular religious texts such as the New Testament, Quran, Bhagavad Gita, Tao Te Ching, or Tibetan Book of the Dead contain interesting insights and stories, it is the Jewish religious texts such as the Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures) that contain valuable information on acquiring wealth. -- H.W. Charles
The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly. -- Mahatma Gandhi
From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures. -- Adi Shankara
One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect: the mere repetition of words.... To obtain Bhakti, seek the company of holy men who have Bhakti, and read books like the Gita and the Imitation of Christ; always think of the attributes of God. -- Swami Vivekananda
When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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