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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 -

Renouncer who neither seeks action nor yet avoids it --- who neither runs after action, nor yet runs away from it. He thus renounceth all, both likes and dislikes. Free from the pairs of opposites is he, and calm and content, ready to perform all tasks and actions that may be set before him, and yet likewise ready to refrain from all action, not being attached thereto; yea, verily is such a one freed from bondage.

''The grown-up children who are entering into the study of the Truth are most prone to speak of Renunciation of Action and the Performance of Right Action as different. Sages know them both as one. Both lead to the same goal, and the followers of the one attain that which is attained by the followers of the other. He who seeth beneath the surface of things, perceiveth that in their essence both are one.

"But it is a most difficult task to attain to Renunciation of Action without the performance of Service through Action, O Arjuna, and the man who harmonizes the two ways is blessed indeed, for he is well started upon the road to Peace. He who is engaged in the performance

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