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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 -

grandsons; uncles and nephews; cousins, kindred all; and friends, comrades and companions, stand before me, inviting my arrows. Even though these may desire to kill me; nay, may even actually slay me --- still do I wish not to slay them, even though the three great regions of the universe be my reward, much less the petty thing we call the earth, or the pettier kingdoms thereof.

"Were I to kill my relatives, the sons of Dhritarashtra, what happiness or pleasure could be ours, O great one. Should we destroy them, remorse would be our companion and indweller. Therefore, it seems to me as a truth that we should refrain from slaying these, our kinsmen, for how can we be happy, hereafter, if we are guilty of having destroyed those of our race.

"It is no excuse for us, who see these things as we do, to say that these others have minds so depraved and bloodthirsty that they can see no evil in the shedding of the blood of their kinsmen and friends. Can such an excuse justify us, who knoweth better, in committing a like horror?

"We have been taught that in the annihilation

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