Gandhi Gita Quotes

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

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#2. Therefore the Gita is not for those who have no faith. The author makes Krishna say: 'Do not entrust this treasure to him who is without sacrifice, without devotion, without the desire for this teaching and who denies Me. On

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#3. The Gita has sung the praises of Knowledge, but it is beyond the mere intellect; it is essentially addressed to the heart and capable of being understood by the heart.

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

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

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#6. My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.

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

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

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

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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.

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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.

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

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

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#19. 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.

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#20. 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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#21. The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.

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#22. In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

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#23. Thinking along these lines, I have felt that in trying to enforce in one's life the central teaching of the Gita, one is bound to follow Truth and ahimsa.

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#24. My regard for jurisprudence increased, I discovered in it religion. I understood the Gita teaching of non-possession to mean that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.

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

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#26. 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.

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#27. Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.

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#28. The manner in which the Gita has solved the problem is to my knowledge unique. The Gita says, 'Do your allotted work but renounce its fruit - be detached and work - have no desire for reward and work.

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#29. If we argue that since all bodies are perishable, one may kill, does it follow that I may kill all the women and children in the Ashram? Would I have in doing so acted according to the teaching of the Bhagavad Gita, merely because their bodies are perishable? What,

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#30. Nor is the Gita a collection of do's and dont's. What is lawful for one may be unlawful for another. What may be permissible at one time, or in one place, may not be so at another time, and in another place. Desire for fruit is the only universal prohibition. Desirelessness is obligatory.

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#31. The Gita does not decide for us. But if, whenever faced with a moral problem, you give up attachment to the ego and then decide what you should do, you will come to no harm. This is the substance of the argument which Shri Krishna has expanded into 18 chapters.

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

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#33. In the Gita, the author has cleverly made use of the event to teach great truths.

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

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

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#36. Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

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#37. The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.

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

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

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#40. understood more clearly in the light of the Gita teaching the implication of the word 'trustee'.

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

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

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#43. The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.

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

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#45. I have from my experience come to the conclusion that Gita has been composed to teach this one truth which I have explained. We can follow truth only in the measure that we shed our attachment to the ego.

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#46. The Gita is not for those who have no faith.

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

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