There are seven hundred verses in the Gita. I had the good fortune to see a man in India who recited the whole of the Gita in an hour and a half, from the beginning to the end. And he said to me that previously he could do it in an hour. However, reciting is one thing, repeating is one thing, but following the teachings of the Gita is something else. The man who recited the whole of the Gita by heart perhaps did not follow any of the teachings of the Gita. In the third chapter of the Gita we come to know that too much eating is not good. It is better to have fresh and not stale food. But this man was a voracious eater and he used to eat rotten, spoiled food. So, he read the Gita but he did not follow the Gita.

– Sri Chinmoy 

Related

• The Bhagavad Gita

Other stories from the Gita

• Krishna, I need only You
• Victory is there, where Dharma is
• He Read the Gita, But He did not follow the Gita
• Arjuna and the Ascetic
• A Great Hero
• The Scholar Came to His Senses
• The Power of Concentration
• Krishna, the Widow and Her Cow