Yes, I’m a Hindu, I’m also a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist and a Jew . . . Today the Gita is not only my Bible or my Koran, it is more than that. It is my mother. When I’m in difficulty or distress, I seek refuge in her bosom.
Mahatma Gandhi
“Gandhi was an enthusiast of the Gita and he had the greatness to utter these words during a time when his country was in a fight between Muslims and Hindus. He is saying that the Gita is not only my Bible or my Koran, it is no longer a text. It is more than that. It is my mother. I cannot wish for myself, or any listener, more than that which is the height of unity, of seeing the oneness that’s around us, and identifying it as it truly is, as our mother nature.”
Isaac Bentwich, M.D. is a translator of the Bhagavad Gita
and the author of Gita: A Timeless Guide for Our Time
