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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 -

too low; his seat made of a cloth, a black antelope skin, and kusha grass, arranged as his teachers have well taught him, in accordance with the traditions of his kind. Sitting thus, he mastereth his mind, and directeth it to one point of concentration --- holding at the same time his senses and wandering thoughts firmly in hand. Sitting thus steady and at rest, he doth purify his soul by directing his consciousness upon the Real Self --- the Absolute which underlieth all.

"With his body well under control, according to the traditional customs of the Yogi, he gazeth undisturbed into the Eternal and Infinite, seeing naught of the world of sense around him. Serene, fearless and at peace --- firm in his resolve --- his mind, controlled and harmonized, is directed toward Me, to whom he aspireth. And, such a Yogi, thus united with his Real Self, and with mind thus controlled, passeth into that Peace and Bliss which is to be found in Me alone.

"Of a truth, to him who eatheth like a glutton, or else maketh too much of a virtue of fasting, or who is too much inclined to sleep, or else who doth make a virtue of abstaining

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