Word: gita
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them as inspirational springboards or simply appropriate them verbatim as your own. Surprisingly, celebrities are the consummate resolution makers. Asked a simple yes or no question (e.g., Will you be watching this year's Super Bowl on television?) your typical actor/singer/model will prattle on interminably about the Bhagavad-Gita, string theory and film restoration. But ask a celeb for a New Year's resolution and out comes a pithy, succinctly worded and cogent personal mission statement...
While studying in England to be a lawyer, he first read the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita, the Hindu religious poem that became his "spiritual dictionary." For Gandhi, the epic was a clarion call to the soul to undertake the battle of righteousness. It taught him to renounce personal desires not by withdrawal from the world but by devotion to the service of his fellow man. In the Christian New Testament he found the stirrings of passive resistance in the words of the Sermon on the Mount...
...Gita Manaktala, promotion and publicity manager for MIT Press, says that trade books aren't the only financial lifesaver for university presses...
...Dharma Gita Study Session...
...Dharma Gita Study Session...