Gita Quotes

• 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

  Disappointment, Joy, Doubt

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• The Gita is like a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Upanishads.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Flower

  "Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge".

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• When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

  Albert Einstein

  India, Happy Independence Day, Republic Day

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• 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

  Morning, Philosophy, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden: Life in the Woods”, p.184, Gibbs Smith

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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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God

  Mahatma Gandhi, K. Swaminathan (1988). “A Gandhi Reader”, Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division

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• 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

  Teaching, Goal, Scripture

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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.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Profound, Devotion To God, Spirit

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• 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

  Stress, Challenges, Chocolate

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• 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

  Inspiration, Purpose, Guides

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• My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Ambition, Mean

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• I read "The Yoga Sutras" every day.And also the "The Bhagavad Gita." Those two books sit by my bed.

  Russell Simmons

  Yoga, Book, Two

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• Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Essence, Practice, Hinduism

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Football

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.79, Vivekananda Kendra

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• "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

  Winning, Heaven, Good Man

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.332, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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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.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Atheist, Vedas, Agnostic

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “Karmayogin”, p.14, editionNEXT.com

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• The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Revelations

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• 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

  Pms, Giving, Empowerment

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• 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

  Men, Practice, Long

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• We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Science, People, Trying

  "NBC White Paper (The Decision to Drop the Bomb)". Documentary, January 5, 1965.

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• Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Today, Scripture

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Race, Sri Lanka

  Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose (1992). “Wisdom of the Gita: Second Series”, p.102, Lotus Press

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• 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

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Humanity

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• 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

  Humanity, Soul, Mind

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• 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

  Order, Understanding, Soul

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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 Lenz

  Careers, People, Enlightenment

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