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VIEWS OF WORLD’S FAMOUS PHILOSOPHERS ON GITA

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VIEWS OF WORLD’S FAMOUS PHILOSOPHERS

ON GITA

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SRI VED VYASA• गी�ता� सु�गी�ता� कताव्या� किकमन्यैः��

शा�स्त्रकि�स्तारैः��।• यैः� स्�यैः� पद्मना�भस्यैः

म�खपद्म�कि�किना�सु�ता�।।

• जो� अपने� आप श्रीवि�ष्णु� भग��ने के� मु�खकेमुल से� विनेकेल हुई है� �है गता� अच्छी� तारहै केण्ठस्थ केरने� चा�विहैए | अन्य शा�स्त्रों* के� वि�स्ता�र से� क्य� ल�भ? -

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ADI SHANKARACHARYA

• 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.

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MADHVACHARYA

• The Bhagavad-Gita is the epitome of the Mahabharata just as ghee is the essence of milk and pollen is the essence of flowers.

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RAMANUJACHARYA• The Bhagavad-Gita was

spoken by Lord Krishna to reveal the science of devotion to God which is the essence of all spiritual knowledge. The Supreme Lord Krishna’s primary purpose for descending and incarnating is to relieve the world of any demoniac and negative, undesirable influences that are opposed to spiritual development .

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SAINT GYANESHWAR• गता� मु, ��दों* के� ताने* के�ण्ड स्पष्ट विकेय�

गय� है1 अता2 �है मु3र्तिता5मु�ने ��दोंरूप है1 और उदों�रता� मु, ता� �है ��दों से� भ अधि:के है� | अगर के�ई दूसेर* के� गता�ग्रं=थ दों�ता� है� ता� जो�ने� विके उसेने� ल�ग* के� लिलए मु�क्षसे�ख के� सेदों�व्रता ख�ल� है� | गता�रूप मु�ता� से� मुने�ष्यरूप बच्चे� वि�य�क्त है�केर भटके रहै� है1 | अता2 उनेके� धिमुलने केर�ने� यहै ता� से�F सेज्जने* के� मु�ख्य :मुF है� |

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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

• श्रीमुद्भग�दोंगता� उपविनेषदोंरूप बगचा* मु, से� चा�ने� हुए आध्य�त्मिMमुके सेMयरूप प�ष्प* से� ग�Nथ� हुआ प�ष्पग�च्छी है� |

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SRI AUROBINDO

• 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.

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LEELA SHAHJI BAPU

• जी��ना क सु��!गी�ण कि�क�सु क लि$ए गी�ता� ग्रं�थ अदभ�ता है� | कि�श्व क, 578 भ�षा�ओं म/ गी�ता� क� अना���द है0 चु�क� है� | हैरैः भ�षा� म/ कई लिचुन्ताक3, कि���ना3 औरैः भक्तों3 ना म�म��सु�ए6 क, है7 औरैः अभ� भ� है0 रैःहै� है7, है0ता� रैःहै/गी� | क्यैः3किक इसु ग्रंन्थ म/ सुब द शा3, जी�कितायैः3, प�थ3 क ताम�म मना�ष्यैः3 क कल्यैः�ण क, अ$>किकक सु�मग्रं� भरैः� हुई है� | अता� हैम सुबक0 गी�ता�ज्ञा�ना म/ अ�गी�हैना करैःना� चु�किहैए | भ0गी, म0क्ष, किना$Bपता�, किनाभयैःता� आदिद ताम�म दिदव्या गी�ण3 क� कि�क�सु करैःना ��$� यैःहै गी�ता� ग्रंन्थ कि�श्व म/ अकि�कितायैः है� |

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MADAN MOHAN MALAVIA JI• इसु अदभ�ता ग्रंन्थ क 18 छो0टे

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RALPH WALDO EMERSON

• I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-gita. It was the first of books; it was as if 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 same questions which exercise us.

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HENRY DAVID THOREAU• 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 seem puny and trivial.

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MAHATMA GANDHI When doubts haunt me,

when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.

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HERMAN HESSE

• The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

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CARL JUNG• The idea that man is like

unto an inverted tree seems to have been current in by gone ages. The link with Vedic conceptions is provided by Plato in which he states… “Behold we are not an earthly but a heavenly plant.” This correlation can be discerned by what Krishna expresses in chapter 15 of Bhagavad-Gita

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DR. ALBERT SCHWEITZER

The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.

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WARREN HASTINGS • I hesitate not to pronounce

the Gita a performance of great originality, of sublimity of conception, reasoning and diction almost unequalled; and a single exception, amongst all the known religions of mankind..

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ANNIE BESANT

• Among the priceless teachings that may be found in the great Indian epic Mahabharata, there is none so rare and priceless as the Gita.

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Pandurang Shastri Vaijnath Athavalepopularly known as Dada - was an Indian philosopher and social reformer who gave discourses on Srimad Bhagawad Gita and Upnishads.

It is my experience that awareness of nearness of God and reverence for that power creates reverence for self, reverence for the other, reverence for nature and reverence for the entire creation, and devotion as an expression of gratitude to God can turn into a social force to bring about transformative changes in all aspects of human life and at all levels of society. - Acceptance speech while receiving the 1997 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, from HRH Prince Philip at a public ceremony held in Westminster Abbey, May 6, 1997.

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Thoughts of Pujya Dadaji

* Fearlessness is the result of faith in oneself and faith in God.

* God does not work for you. He works with you.

* Keep Gita in your head and heart and be proud of yourself.

* Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.

* Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

* Bhakti(Devotion) is a social force.

* Culture includes - way of thinking, way of life and way of Worship.

Thoughts of Pujya Dadaji

* Fearlessness is the result of faith in oneself and faith in God.

* God does not work for you. He works with you.

* Keep Gita in your head and heart and be proud of yourself.

* Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.

* Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

* Bhakti(Devotion) is a social force.

* Culture includes - way of thinking, way of life and way of Worship.