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Yogi Ramacharaka

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William Atkinson / Yogi Ramacharaka's

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 -


of the episode of the epic, called the Bhagavad Gita, the poem or story which is offered to your consideration in this little book. Arjuna is made to see the weakness of his position, judged from the absolute point-of-view, and he consents to play his part in the drama. The battle finally results in the overthrow of the Kurus, or elder branch, and the triumph of the Pandus, or younger branch, the latter being Arjuna's party.

The scene opens at a place removed from the battle field, where the old blind king Dhritarashtra inquires of the faithful Sanjaya, of the events transpiring at the front. Sanjaya replies, giving the news "of the day, his story comprising the poem.

The battle, of course, serves but as a setting for the discourse of Krishna to Arjuna, at least so far as this poem is concerned


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