"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."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, � Journals
"The Gita is one of the clearest and most comprehensive
summaries of
spiritual thought ever to have been made.
Hence its enduring value, not
only for Indians,
but for all mankind."
-- Aldous Huxley
"The most beautiful,
perhaps the only true
philosophical song existing
in
any known tongue ....
perhaps the deepest and loftiest
thing the world has to
show."
-- Wilhelm von Humboldt
"In the morning I bathe my intellect
in the stupendous and cosmogonical
philosophy of the Bhagavad-gita,
in comparison to which
our modern world and its literature
seem puny and trivial."
"What extracts from the Vedas I have read
fall on me like the light of a
higher and purer luminary,
which describes a loftier course through purer
stratum.
It rises on me like the full moon after the stars have come out,
wading through some far stratum in the sky."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"Indeed,
the most wonderful thing
to happen to my life.
The Bhagavad-gita
As It Is"
-- Your humble host
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