From Adi Shankaracharya to Mahatama Gandhi,
Innumerable great saints, thinkers and Philosophers have written about it. It has inspired people across the world. It has influenced and attracted great minds, that of Henri Thoreau and Martin Shin. In that sense, Geeta is truly a universal scripture. Read from start to the end and nowhere do you find the word ‘Hindu’ in it. It emanates from the mouth of lord incarnate. It is not Krishna who speaks. It is the divinity in him that is aroused and which addresses Arjuna. When such divinity manifests, it speaks about the welfare of the entire humanity. Hence, it is a universal scripture. Geeta expounds truth and destroys all illusions. At any given time and in any given condition or status in life, Geeta assists you in deciding your duty and the righteous course of action that should be pursued. Its principles are applicable to everyone and not to any particular segment or relation. It is for the entire universe. Sometimes five-day sessions (lectures on Geeta) are arranged in the form of Geeta Panchahas.

Henry David Thoreau
“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the 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 is another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us.”

Mahatma 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 the 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 everyday.”

Albert Einstein
“When I read the Bhagavad Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything seems so superfluous.”