Gita Belongs To Entire Humanity, Not One Religion: Lok Sabha Speaker

Om Birla was in Kurukshetra to take part in the ongoing International Gita Mahotsav and was accompanied by Haryana Chief Minister ML Khattar.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Saturday said the religious Hindu book Bhagavad Gita does not belong to any particular language, region or religion but to the entire humanity.

Mr Birla was in Kurukshetra to take part in the ongoing International Gita Mahotsav and was accompanied by Haryana Chief Minister ML Khattar and State Assembly Speaker Gian Chand Gupta among others.

If there is darkness or difficulty in anyone's life, then Gita can show the way forward. "very doubt in our life can be cleared after reading a small part of the "Gita Saar"," said Mr Birla.

"India is the world's largest democracy and the base of our democracy was laid thousands of years ago by the sages and thinkers who always emphasised on the path of peace, spiritually and equality among all forms of life present on the planet," he said.