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The world’s largest sacred book – Bhagavad Gita was unveiled in Delhi yesterday by PM Narendra Modi at ISKON temple. Dubbed the ‘Astounding Bhagavad Gita’, and measuring 2.8 m by 2 m. Read on to know more what went down.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a mammoth-sized Bhagavad Gita, weighing 800 kilograms and spread across 670 pages at the popular ISKCON temple yesterday. Officials from the temple report that the book measures 2.8 X 2 m and is the single largest sacred text that has been printed till date.
The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), known colloquially as the Hare Krishna movement, is a worldwide confederation of more than 400 temples and runs 100 vegetarian restaurants and a wide variety of community-serving projects.
PM took the Delhi Metro to attend the event to avoid peak time traffic. He also addressed a gathering comprising spiritual leaders, diplomats, social leaders, scholars along with devotees and members of ISKCON from around the world.
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