Quotes On Bhagavad-gita

 

Mohan­das K. Gandhi:

“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.”

Henry David Thoreau:

“In the morn­ing I bathe my intel­lect in the stu­pen­dous and cos­mog­o­nal phi­los­o­phy of Bhagavad-gita, in com­par­i­son with which our mod­ern world and its lit­er­a­ture seem puny and trivial.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

“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.”

Quotes On Karma and Reincarnation

 

Ben­jamin Franklin:

“Find­ing myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.”

Carl Jung:

“I could well imag­ine that I might have lived in for­mer cen­turies and there encoun­tered ques­tions I was not yet able to answer, that I had to be born again because I had not ful­filled the task that was given to me.”

Socrates:

“I am con­fi­dent that there truly is such a thing as liv­ing again, that the liv­ing spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.”

Voltaire:

“It is not more sur­pris­ing to be born twice than once.”

Henry Ford:

“I adopted the the­ory of rein­car­na­tion when I was twenty-six…Genius is expe­ri­ence. Some seem to think that it is a gift or tal­ent, but it is the fruit of long expe­ri­ence in many lives.”

Charles Dick­ens:

“We all have some expe­ri­ence of a feel­ing that comes over us occa­sion­ally, of what we are say­ing and doing hav­ing been said and done before…”

George Har­ri­son:

“Friends are all souls that we’ve known in other lives.”

Quotes On Vegetarianism

 

Albert Ein­stein:

“Noth­ing will ben­e­fit human health and increase the chances for sur­vival of life on Earth as much as the evo­lu­tion to a veg­e­tar­ian diet.”

Thoreau:

“I have no doubt that it is a part of the des­tiny of the human race, in its grad­ual improve­ment, to leave off eat­ing animals.”

Gandhi:

“I do feel that spir­i­tual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fel­low crea­tures for the sat­is­fac­tion of our bod­ily wants.”

Tol­stoy:

“[of flesh eating]…simply immoral, as it involves the per­for­mance of an act which is con­trary to moral feel­ing – killing.”

Singer:

“[veg­e­tar­ian at age 58] Nat­u­rally I am sorry now that I waited so long, but it is bet­ter later than never.”

George Bernard Shaw:

“If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth — beings who con­sid­ered them­selves as supe­rior to you as you feel your­self to be to other ani­mals — would you con­cede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?”

Abra­ham Lincoln:

“I am in favor of ani­mal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”

Leo Tol­stoy:

“As long as there are slaugh­ter­houses, there will be battlefields.”

Pythago­ras:

“For as long as men mas­sacre ani­mals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of mur­der and pain can­not reap joy and love.”

Isa­iah (66:3):

“He that kil­leth an ox is as if he slew a man.”

Exo­dus (20:13):

“Thou shalt not kill.”