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There is an alround impression that Gandhiji opposed machinery. Then a defence is available that he opposed the craze for machinery and not the machinery itself per se. He seems to have opposed the craze for machinery because machines displace labour and make their lives miserable. This pro-labour sympathetic opposition to machinery is reasonable.
Today (2007), India is going through a revolution. Everywhere there are machines. The people replaced by machinery are leading miserable lives.
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ybrao a donkey's view
Machines reduce drudgery of humans. At the sametime, they take away the essential physical exercise which humans need to lead healthy lives. Striking a balance between the two, is a problem because different types of individuals have different levels of drudgery and the extent of rest required. Anyway, we have to discuss this issue in length, in an unbiased manner.
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I will be highly obliged to receive the references of the following quotes on Gita and of Gandhi Ji, needed for my research work.
1. The Bhagavad Geeta is the most beautiful and profound philosophical work in the world.
- W. Von Humboldt (German Philosopher)
2. In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad - Geeta, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial.
- Henry David Thoreau (American Philosopher)
3. 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.
4. "The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings, Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged monotheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanishadic absolute."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
5. The Geeta is an excellent spiritual gift to the world. The essence of all the religions of world has been presented in this one book.
- Alberuni (Arabian Thinker)
6. "The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity."
- Aldus Huxley (American Thinker)
7. "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.
8. Geeta is not only my Bible or my Koran, it is more than that. It is my mother ……. When I am in difficulty and distress, I seek refuge in her bosom.
9. I wish, Geeta should not only be taught in national schools but should be taught in every school. For a Hindu boy or girl, not knowing Geeta should be a matter of embarrassment. It is true that the Geeta is a treatise of 'World Religion'.
10. 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-Geeta and find a verse to comfort me; and immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Geeta will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it, every day.' - Mahatma Gandhi (Father of the Nation, India)
Thanking you.
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S.S.Gupt
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