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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 -

of Universes which I desire, or which is necessary for Me to perform. Nor is it possible for anything to be attained by Me, which I have not already attained. And yet, O Pandu Prince, and yet, I am in constant action and motion. I work without ceasing. And if I were not constantly in action, O Arjuna, would not men follow my example? Should I refrain from action, would these Universes not fall into ruin, and utter confusion and chaos reign?

"Remember, O Arjuna, that even as the undeveloped do labor and act through attachment and hope of reward, so should the developed and enlightened act and work for the common cause and universal law, and not from attachment to personal ends and objects,

"It is not wisdom to unsettle the minds of the undeveloped with these thoughts; let them labor on, each doing the best that he can; but do thou and the other wise ones, work in harmony with me and endeavor to render all action attractive to them. And this is best done by the force of example.

"Place the responsibility for action upon the shoulders of Him to whom it belongs --- the

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