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.
In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.
I still somehow or other fancy that “my philosophy” represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.
Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
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.
The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.
The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.
The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.
To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.
What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula.
Charkha is an instrument of service.
The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India’s freedom.
The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.
The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India’s myriads.
The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.
The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.
The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.
Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.
The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.
The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.