Gita Quotes - Page 2

• Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self Esteem, Believe, Yoga

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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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mind, Messages, Speak

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

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• 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

  Spiritual, Views, Foundation

  "A Tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and Wisdom Spanning Continents and Time about India and Her Culture". Book by Sushama Londhe, 2008.

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• 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

  Country, Teaching, Oath Of Office

  "Tulsi Gabbard, First Hindu In Congress, Uses Bhagavad Gita At Swearing-In" By Jaweed Kaleem, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2013.

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• There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Book, Teaching, Sacred

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• The Gita is not for those who have no faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.24, North Atlantic Books

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• The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles, is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things.

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  Struggle, Teaching, Men

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• 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

  Book, World, Influence

  Source: www.complex.com

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• 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

  Change, World, Lines

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

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• 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

  People, East, West

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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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teaching, Tragedy, Hinduism

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.186, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Motivational, Ideas, Feet

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Bible, Book

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• 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

  Karma, Yoga, Secret

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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.'

  George Harrison

  Believe, Scripture, Hinduism

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• Dhyan means meditation. Meditation means awareness, watchfulness, a silent witnessing of all the processes of the mind. And the magic of watching is that as your watchfulness deepens, the mind starts evaporating. When the watchfulness is absolute mind becomes nil, a zero. And the disappearance of the mind gives you clarity, absolute clarity, transparency; you can see through and through, you become a mirror. And then life is reflected as it is - not according to any doctrine, not according to the Bible or the Koran or the Gita but as it is. And to know life as it is, is to know god.

  Rajneesh

  Zero, Mean, Mirrors

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• The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Destiny, Perfection, Looks

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.100, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The Bhagavad-Gita is where God Himself talks to His devotee Arjuna.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Arjuna, Devotee

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• 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

  Meaningful, Wisdom, Yoga

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• The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother

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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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teaching, Philosophical, Empires

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• 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

  Book, Mind Blowing, Greek

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.203, Canongate Books

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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?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Book, Stones

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Formulas, Graphic, Sermons

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• In the great books of India, 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 questions that exercise us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Exercise, Voice

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