PM Modi launches Kindle version of Swami Chidbhavanandaji’s Bhagavad Gita

Ravi S Singh
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, March 11

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that India’s enterprise of self-reliance (Atmanirbharta) will be beneficial to the world.

Launching the Kindle version of Swami Chidbhavanandaji’s Bhagavad Gita through virtual mode, Modi said the entire nation fought against the coronavirus with exemplary fortitude.

He said that the Gita teaches one to live an exhilarating and self-fulfilling life.

Extolling the virtues and ideals enshrined in the scripture, he said the holy book is relevant in the present context.

“It is an ocean of wisdom, and the text substrates pragmatics. Each of its chapters is overlaid with profound, metaphysical and ontological wisdom,” he said.

Dwelling on the relevance of the Gita, he said “it is an elixir of life and shows the path to victory and resolution from the miasma of conflict.”

He said the youth should read and contemplate its text.

Mahatma Gandhi and Bal Gangadhar Tilak (aka Lokmanya Tilak) were ardent followers of the Gita.

He said India’s modern saint-philosopher Swami Vivekanand, who had inspired Swami Chidbhavanandaji, held the country above everything else.

The event was organised to commemorate the sale of over five lakh copies of the Swami Chidbhavanandaji’s Bhagavad Gita.

Swami Chidbhavanandaji is the founder of Sri Ramakrishna Tapovanam Ashram at Thirupparaithurai, Tiruchirapalli, and Tamil Nadu. Swamiji has authored 186 books and all genres of literary composition.

His scholarly work on the Gita is one of the most extensive books on the subject.

The Tamil version of the Gita, with his commentaries, was published in 1951, followed by the English in 1965. Its translations into Telugu, Oriya, German and Japanese were undertaken by devotees.