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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 -

think of you! Ask that ye may receive! He who receiveth the gifts of the gods, and faileth to accord to them his thought and recognition is like unto a thief. From food, creatures are nourished and grown; from rain cometh the food; from the gods come the rain in response to the desires and demands of man; and the desires and demands of man are forms of action; and the actions proceed from the One --- All-pervading Life.'

"He, who, living in this world of action, attempts to refrain from action --- he, who, enjoying the fruits of action of the acting world, would still shirk from his share of the work and action of the world --- he who would thus idle away his life lives a life most vain and shameful. He who profiteth by the turn of the wheel, at every moment of his life, yet refuseth to touch his hand to it to impart motion, is a shirker of tasks and a thief who takes, giving nothing in return.

"But wise is he who acteth otherwise, and who performeth well his work of the world, providing, that he be unattached to the fruits thereof and that he be always centered in the knowledge of the Real Self. For such an one

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