Festival of The Gita

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Gita Jayanti, Festival of the Bhagavad Gita

India's greatest Book of Knowledge

Saturday December 6, 6 pm

Krishna Temple

8628 S. State St., Spanish Fork, Utah 84660

798-3559/787-1510

carudas (AT) earthlink (DOT) net

www.iskcon.net/utah

 

 

Bhagavad Gita (Song of God) is the crest jewel of India¹s ancient wisdom.

Five thousand years ago Lord Krishna spoke these 700 verses to His friend

and disciple, Arjuna. They have illuminated and guided the path of Indian

civilization ever since.

Part of the celebrations will be a ceremony in which offerings will be

placed on the sacred fire while chanting each of the 108 principal verses.

There will be a multi media drama called ³The Scholar and the Boatman², a

film on the big screen called Vrindavan, Land of Krishna, music, dancing

and feasting.

Everybody is invited to attend this transcendental event. Below are some

quotes from well known personalities who benefited from studying Bhagavad

Gita.

 

The Bhagavad Gita

 

"When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this

universe everything else seems so superfluous." ~ Albert Einstein

 

"The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its

devotion to God which is manifested by actions." ~ Dr. Albert Schweizer

 

"The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution

of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive

summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is

subject not only to India but to all of humanity."

~ Aldous Huxley

 

"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 his

Timaeus in which it states..." behold we are not an earthly but a heavenly

plant." ~ Carl Jung

 

"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonical

philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world

and its literature seems puny and trivial." ~ Henry David Thoreau

 

"The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's

wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion." ~ Herman Hesse

 

"The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure

duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires

and undisciplined impulses."

 

"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."

~ Mahatma Gandhi

 

"The Bhagavad-Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human

existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of

life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the

universe." ~ Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

 

"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."

 

"The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical

teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged monotheistic

deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanishadic absolute."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full

understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it." ~ Rudolph Steiner

 

"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." ~ Adi Sankara