Yamini C S | Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
Union defence minister Rajnath Singh was in Bengaluru on Saturday to attend an occasion on the at ISKCON (Worldwide Society for Krishna Consciousness) Sri Rajadhiraja Govinda Temple in Vasanthapura on the event of Gita Jayanti Mahotsava.
Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai and his predecessor BS Yediyurappa had been current, as was controversial Bengaluru (south) MP Tejasvi Surya and different state ministers.
The ISKCON group of temples in Bengaluru is about to distribute one lakh Bhagavad Gita copies throughout the month-long ‘Gita Daan Yajna’. Singh was invited to the occasion because the chief visitor.
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The union minister shared his speech on social media.
“Self-help books are very fashionable in western nations. These are books which might be written with the intention of serving to the readers discover options to their private issues. I imagine that if we examine Gita completely, we is not going to want another self-help guide,” he stated.
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Hailing India as a peace-loving nation, he added, “Violence and battle have by no means been our tendency. That is why India by no means attacked another nation and by no means occupied an inch of anybody’s land. Nonetheless, world additionally has to know tolerating injustice and being impartial in direction of unrighteousness has additionally not been part of our character.”
“I at all times say that India by no means teases anybody, however when somebody teases India, we do not go away them. That is additionally the message of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita,” he completed.