Bhagavad Gita Shapes Our Destiny!
On Feb 26, 2019 evening PM Modi unveiled the world's largest Bhagavad Gita at Delhi's ISKCON temple. The giant book that ISKCON created weighs 800 kg, measures 2.8 m x 2 m, and runs into 670 pages! "Dubbed the Astounding Bhagavad Gita, it is billed as the largest principal sacred text ever to be printed," the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) said.
There Modiji was addressing a gathering comprising spiritual leaders, social leaders, diplomats, scholars, devotees, and members of ISKCON from around the world. He characterized Bhagavad Gita as the timeless wisdom of manual of humanity and noted its relevance even in the modern world.
You may listen to the full speech Modiji delivered on that occasion at this link:
PM Modi says he finds answers to all complex problems in Bhagavad Gita.
These unrehearsed and unscripted observations can only come out of one's habits of reading and practicing Bhagavad Gita. These spontaneous and extempore expressions define one's actions and character. Remember that on this same day till 'brahma muhurtham' the PM was monitoring the air strike on the enemy camp!
It gives us lots of reassurance to believe that it was the Dharmic principles expounded by Lord Krishna in the battlefield of Kurukshetra that enabled Modiji to guide his ministers, bureaucrats, and defense services men in the emotional turmoil when faced with hard choices that the country had to make the previous fortnight.
Bhagavad Gita Chapter2, Verse 38:
सुखदुःखे समे कृत्वा लाभालाभौ जयाजयौ।ततो युद्धाय युज्यस्व नैवं पापमवाप्स्यसि॥
Treating alike, pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat, you should fight for the sake of duty. Thus you will never incur sin.
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