Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who disseminated his thoughts
through dozens of published essays and more than 1500 public lectures across the United States. He said:
"I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing
small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had
pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson,American Essayist, Lecturer, and Poet