Henry David Thoreau says:
"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous
and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvad-Gita, in comparison with which our
modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial."
Ralph Waldo Emerson on the Gita:
"I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagwad-Gita. It was
the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or
unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence
which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same
questions which exercise us."
Mahatma Gandhi says:
“When disappoint stares me in the face and all alone I
see not one ray of light, I go back to the Bhagvad Geeta. I find a verse here
and a verse there, and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of
overwhelming tragedies.”
Dr. Annie Besant on the Gita
“It is meant to lift the aspirant from the lower levels of
renunciation, where objects are renounced, to the loftier heights where
desires are dead, and where the yogi dwells in calm and ceaseless
contemplation while his body and mind are actively employed in discharging
the duties that fell to his lot in life.”
Swami Vivekananda says:
“The Gita is a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of
spiritual truths collected from the Vedas and the Upanishads.”
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The Gita was preached as a
preparatory lesson for living worldly life with an eye to Release, Nirvana. My
last prayer to everyone, therefore, is that one should not fail to thoroughly
understand this ancient science of worldly life as early as possible in one’s
life.
--- Lokmanya Tilak
The Gita is one of the clearest
and most comprehensive summaries of the perennial philosophy ever to have been
done. Hence its enduring value, not only for the Indians, but also for all
mankind. It is perhaps the most
systematic spiritual statement of the perennial philosophy.
--- Aldous Huxley
I believe that in all the living
languages of the world, there is no book so full of true knowledge, and yet so
handy. It teaches self-control, austerity, non-violence, compassion, obedience
to the call of duty for the sake of duty, and putting up a fight against
unrighteousness (Adharma). To my
knowledge, there is no book in the whole range of the world’s literature so
high above as the Bhagavad-Gita, which is the treasure-house of Dharma nor only
for the Hindus but foe all mankind.
--- M. M. Malaviya
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