"The text is awesome. The vision of the Universal Form is equal to any Sublime poesy of the West, superior in detailed image to Dante's final Cantos' Paradise vision... The explanations of Swami Bhaktivedanta are transparent and exquisitely detailed--expositions presented here for the first time to the common public Western mind--a storehouse of old age, experience, devotion, learning, scholarship, Hindu granny-wisdom, sincerity, gaiety and sweet transcendental insight." --Alan Ginsberg

"KRSNA is GOD, the source of all that exists, the Cause of all that is, was, or ever will be. As GOD is unlimited HE has many Names. Allah, Buddha, Jehovah, Rama: ALL are KRSNA, all are ONE. God is not abstract; He has both the impersonal and the personal aspects to His personality, which is SUPREME, ETERNAL, BLISSFUL, and full of KNOWLEDGE. As a single drop of water has the same qualities as an ocean of water, so has our consciousness the qualities of GOD'S consciousness..." --George Harrison

"TheGitapresents a problem to some who read it in the present context of violence and war which mark the crisis of the West. TheGitaappears to accept and justify war. Arjuna is exhorted to submit his will to Krishna by going to war against his enemies, who are also his own kin, because the war is his duty as a Prince and a warrior..."--Thomas Merton