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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 -

Krishna: "Know, O Prince, that when a man freeth himself from the bonds of the desires of his heart, and findeth satisfaction in the Real Self within himself --- such a one has attained Spiritual Consciousness. His mind is disturbed neither by adversity nor by prosperity; accepting both, he is tied to neither. Anger, fear and worry have been cast off by him as discarded garments. He is worthy of the name of Sage.

"Such a man meets the charges and events of life, be they favorable or unfavorable, with equanimity --- likes and dislikes being foreign to him, for he is no longer bound by attachments, or things.

"When a man hath attained true spiritual knowledge, he becometh like unto the tortoise which is able to draw within its shell its limbs, for such a man may withdraw his faculties of sense-impression from the objects of sense, and shelter them from the illusions of the senseworld, well protected by the armor of the Spirit.

"It is true that there are those who are able to refrain from gratification of the senses, but the desire for gratification still disturbs. But

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