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Gita Quotes

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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

'A thorough comprehension of the Bhagavad-gita renders all aspirations of humankind fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the epitome of the whole Vedic literature.'
Authors on Gita Quotes: Mahatma Gandhi Frederick Lenz J. Robert Oppenheimer Albert Einstein Albert Schweitzer Henry David Thoreau RZA Radhanath Swami Ralph Waldo Emerson Paramahansa Yogananda Mukunda Goswami Vinoba Bhave Adi Shankara Hermann Hesse Neale Donald Walsch Sri Aurobindo George Harrison Swami Vivekananda
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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

I have drawn upon the Bhagwad Gita as a primary source of motivation and guidance for my scholarly research and the construction of my hypotheses.
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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

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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

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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

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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

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Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
Mahatma Gandhi

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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

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In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action is forever.
Frederick Lenz

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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.
Mahatma Gandhi

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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

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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

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

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The main reason why we look constantly to the Gita is that, whenever we need help, we may get it from the Gita. And, indeed, we always do get it.
Vinoba Bhave

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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

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The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.
Mahatma Gandhi

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.
Mahatma Gandhi

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My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.
Mahatma Gandhi

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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.
Mahatma Gandhi

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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

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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

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I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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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

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

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A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.
Mahatma Gandhi

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In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.
Mahatma Gandhi

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The essence of Bhagavad Gita is that we should always think of Krsna, become His devotee, worship him and offer homage unto him.
Radhanath Swami

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The Gita is not for those who have no faith.
Mahatma Gandhi

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The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.
Mahatma Gandhi

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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

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

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Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

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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

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This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act.
Frederick Lenz

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The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

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If people can understand the Lord's message in Bhagavad-gita, they can become truly happy.
Mukunda Goswami

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

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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

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

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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

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To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.
Mahatma Gandhi