Mahatma Gandhi Gita Quotations

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

There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.

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

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

The Gita is not for those who have no faith.

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