Albert Einstein
Physicist
"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."
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Albert Einstein
Physicist
"When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous"
Hermann Hesse
Novelist, Poet
"The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"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."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books."
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"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.'"
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"When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the sceptic was in me and I was not absolutely sure that there was a God at all. I did not feel His presence. Yet something drew me to the truth of the Vedas, the truth of the Gita, the truth of the Hindu religion."
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"The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man."
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"The Bhagavad-Gita is where God Himself talks to His devotee Arjuna."
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"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."
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"The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary."
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"The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization."
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"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."
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"What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula."
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"There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita."
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"I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount."
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"Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time."
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"Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness."
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"My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita."
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"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?"
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"My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action."
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"I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion."
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"The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions."
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"A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita."
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"The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility."
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