"The Gita is the universal mother. She turns away nobody. Her door is wide open to anyone who knocks. A true votary of the Gita does not know what disappointment is. He ever dwells in perennial joy and 'peace that passeth all understanding'. But that peace and joy comes not to the skeptic or to him who is proud of his intellect or learning. It is reserved only for the humble in spirit who brings to her worship a fullness of faith and an undivided singleness of mind. There never was a man who worshipped her in this spirit and went back disappointed.
I find a solace in the Bhagavad Gita that I miss even in the sermon on the Mount. When disappointment stares me in the face and all alone I see not a ray of light, I go back to the Bhagavad Gita. I find a verse here and a verse there, and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming tragedies - and if they have left no visible, no indelible scar on me, I owe it all to the teaching of the Bhagavad Gita."
~ Mahatma Gandhi (taken from The Holy Geeta - a CCMT publication)
Let us pay heed to his words and understand how the Gita guided him in his darkest moments. Let us all "Go through Gita... Grow through Gita..." and let Gita go through you to the next generation by example.
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