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Gita Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

42 Gita quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi’s reflections on the Gita bring a blend of spiritual depth and everyday relevance. Across 42 entries, he weaves his own moral compass with the ancient text, offering readers a thoughtful bridge between timeless teachings and modern life.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.

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

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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…

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

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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…

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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 order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given…

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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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If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the…

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The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in…

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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…

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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…

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When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon,…

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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…

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

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

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

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The Gita is not for those who have no faith.

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

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

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Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide…

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

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

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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

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So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

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I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

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Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to…

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“Where there is life.”

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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…

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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

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