Wherein lies the originality of the Gita which distinguishes it from all preceding scriptures?
It is this: Though before its advent, Yoga, Jnana, Bhakti, etc. had each its strong adherents, they all quarreled among themselves, each claiming superiority for its own chosen path; no one ever tried to seek for reconciliation among these different paths.
It was the author
of the Gita who for the first time tried to harmonize these. He took the best
from what all the sects then existing had to offer and threaded them in the
Gita.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Gita Class at Alambazar
Math,
INTERESTING.
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