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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 a family, the ancient virtue of the family is destroyed. And in the destruction of the virtue and traditions of a people, vice and impiety overwhelm the whole race. Thus may the women of the family become corrupt, and the purity of the blood vanish. This adulteration of the blood prevents the performance of the ceremonies of the rites due the ancestors, according to our ancient customs, and the forefathers, if the teachings of the people be true, must sink into a state of misery and unhappiness.

"Thus by the crimes of those who destroy their own relations, sore contamination of the family-virtue and glory is made possible, and the forefathers of the race are given great mortification, and pain and degradation, as we have been taught from childhood, as a people, O Krishna.

"O woe is me! Woe unto us who are preparing to commit the horrible crime of murdering these, our blood-relations and kind, for the bauble of dominion --- the lust of power!

"Rather would I bare my breast to the weapons of the Kurns, and let them drink deep of the blood of my heart --- rather would

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