Gita festival

12-05-2004, 02:19 PM

What: Gita Jayanti, Celebrating India's Greatest Book of Knowledge
When: Saturday December 18th, 6 pm
Where: Krishna Temple, 8628 S. Main St., Spanish Fork, Utah 84660
Contacts: Caru and Vai 798-339/787-1510
www.utahkrishnas.com

Gita Jayanti, Festival of the Bhagavad Gita
Saturday December 18, 6 pm

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 drama called ³The Genie in the Lamp², a Powerpoint
presentation on the Gita, 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

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Caru das and Vaibhavi