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Bhagavad Gita

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Introduction - The Scene; Theme; and Character - Gloom of Arjuna - Inner Doctrine - The Secret of Work - Spiritual Knowledge - Renunciation - Self Mastery - Spiritual Discernment - Mystery of Omnipresence - Kingly Knowledge - Universal Perfection - Universal Manifestation - Yoga of Devotion - Knower and the Known - Three Gunas or Qualities - Consciousness of the Supreme - Good and Evil Natures - Threefold Faith - Renunciation and Freedom - Contents -

for the nobility of character displayed by him.

The battle was opened by Bhishma, the Kuru chieftain, blowing his great war-shell or conch, to the sound of which his followers joined with the blare of their battle shells and horns. Arjuna, and the Pandu host answer the challenge with mighty blasts. The fight then begins with great flights of arrows, in which both sides exert themselves to the utmost. Arjuna, at the beginning of the battle, asks Krishna to drive his chariot to a position where he may witness the two contending parties. From the desired position Arjuna surveys the two battle lines, and is overcome with horror at the sight of blood relatives and friends opposing each other in the two contending armies. He sees dear ones on both sides, seeking each other's blood. He is overcome with the thought of the horror of the fratricidal war, and, throwing down his weapons, he declares that he would rather die without defending himself, than be the cause of the death of his kinsmen on the other side. Krishna replies with subtle philosophical discourse, which forms the greater part

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