Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Gita
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The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.
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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.
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Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.
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The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.
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The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.
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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.
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The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.
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The Gita is not for those who have no faith.
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Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
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A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.
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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.
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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.
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The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
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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?
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The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.
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The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.
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The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.
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A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.
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The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.
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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.
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Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.
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My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.
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The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.
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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.
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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.
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I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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