Guest guest Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 SACRED SPACE: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/OPINION/Editorial/SACRED_SPACE_Divine_Gita/articleshow/1085472.cms It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spake 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 ques-tions which exercise us. R W Emerson The reader is nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagavad Gita... Beside (it), even our Shakespeare seems sometimes youthfully green and practical merely. Thoreau The Gita presents some of the most important truths of human existence in a language that is clear, memorable, and charged with emotion. It is a poem, of course, and not a systematic manual. Its method is not linear but circular and descriptive. It returns to its central point letting go of the fruits of action again and again, addressing not only superior students but also the great majority, who are spiritually unfocused and slow to grasp the point. Stephen Mitchell Renunciation of the fruits of action is the centre around which the Gita is woven. It is the central sun around which devotion, knowledge, and the rest revolve like planets. M K Gandhi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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