Western Thinkers Read Bhagavad-Gita.
Lord Warren Hastings - the first Governor General of India, described Bhagavad-Gita as:
"elevated to a track of sublimity into which our habits of judgement will find it difficult to penetrate."
Wilhelm von Humboldt, distinguished German scholar and linguist:
"I read the Indian poem for the first time when I was in my country estate in Silesia and, while doing so, I felt a sense of overwhelming gratitude to God for having let me live to be acquainted with this work. It must be the most profound and sublime thing to be found in the world.
" The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ... perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show."
Thomas Carlyle - British writer and philosopher:
"This is a most inspiring book; it has brought comfort and consolation in my life..."
The influential American thinker and writer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote:
"I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavat Geeta. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spake 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."
Henry David Thoreau: "In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavat Geeta... in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial"
"...the reader is nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher or rarer region of thought than in Bhagavad Geeta "
Aldous Huxley:
"The Gita is one of the clearest and most comprehensive summaries of the
Perennial Philosophy ever to have been made. Hence its enduring value, not
only for Indians, but for all mankind".