Gita Quotes - Page 4

• The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Light, Darkness, Incompatibility

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Way, Realization

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.18, North Atlantic Books

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• It came to my mind that in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, in Indian spiritual literature, and in the Bhagavad Gita, and when I started reading about outstanding yogis and people of exceeding spiritual power such as Ramana Maharshi, or Yogananda, they all had the ability to do what we would call - I don't know what you would even call it - psychic phenomenon, magic, transform objects, be able to perceive the future, the past and the present simultaneously.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Spiritual, Yoga, Reading

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think...Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all sorts of murderous and self-destructive behaviors such as war.... The Gita is a dishonest book .

  Wendy Doniger

  War, Nice, Book

  Philadelphia Inquirer, November 19, 2000.

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• Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Perfect, Salvation, Perfect Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.20, North Atlantic Books

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• Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Waste, Wasting Time, Wealth

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works”

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• Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Scripture, Realization

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.18, North Atlantic Books

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• The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Keys, World, Scripture

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gita: The Mother”, Lahore, India : Indian Printing Works

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• According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Letters, Fruit, Warfare

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.23, North Atlantic Books

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• In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Warfare, Characteristics

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Philosophy, Teaching, Fancy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.

  Mahatma Gandhi

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

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• The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Acid, Tests, Test Of Faith

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sea, Land, Contradiction

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teaching, Liberty, Treasure

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Kings, Sacrifice

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• 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 Lenz

  Women, Book, Animal

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• Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Nuclear, World, Firsts

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• You will be nearer to Heaven through foot ball than through study of Gita.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Feet, Heaven, Balls

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

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• The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tolerate, Activity

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

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