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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 -

he who has found the Real Self within and who knoweth what he hath found --- even Desire fadeth away from such a one, and temptation is temptation no more, but becomes even as a shadow which hath been effaced by the glare of the noon-sun overhead.

"The abstainer is oft carried away by a sudden rush of tumultuous desire, which sweeps away his resolutions --- but he who knoweth the Real Self to be the only Reality is master of himself, his desires and his senses. Wrapt in contemplation of the Real, the unreal exists not for him.

"The man who allows his mind to dwell closely on the objects of sense, becomes so wrapped up in the object of his contemplation that he creates an attachment which binds him to them. From this attachment ariseth Desire; from Desire springeth Passion; from Passion come Folly and Recklessness; from these proceed loss of Memory; and from loss of Memory cometh loss of Reason; thus he loseth all.

"But he who hath gained freedom from attachment to, or fear of, objects of sense; he who findeth his strength and love in the

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