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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 -

''There be those, who lacking in Discernment, think of Me as being Manifest and visible to their eyes. Know thou, Arjuna, that in my essence I am not manifest or visible to men. Back of my emanated forms, rest I, undiscovered and invisible to the ignorant. Birthless and deathless am I --- though the smoke-blinded world discerneth this not, for they take the shadow for the substance. Full well knoweth I the countless beings which have passed before my gaze, on the broad field of the universe, in the misty path. Likewise, knoweth I all who are now present on the field. And, moreover --- mighty mystery this to men, O Prince --- I also know all that shall hereafter tread the field. But of them all -- past, present and future --- not one fully knoweth Me. I hold them all in my mind, but their minds cannot hold Me in my essence.

"Blinded by the pairs of opposites, O Prince their eyes filled with 'the smoke of illusion -- seeking instead of Unity, the opposing forms of like and dislike; men walk in the field of the Universe, deluded, all. Nay, not all --- for there be a few who have freed themselves from the pair of opposites --- who have dis*

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