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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 -

I am the sustainer of all things, but All Things are not I. Knoweth thou that even as the vast volume of Air, everywhere present, and in constant activity, is sustained and contained within the Universal Ether --- so do all manifested things rest in Me, the Unmanifest. This is the Secret, O Arjuna; ponder well upon it. At the end of a Kalpa --- a day of Brahm --- a period of creative activity --- I withdraw into my nature all things and beings. And, at the beginning of another Kalpa, I emanate all things and beings, and re-perform my creative act. Throughout Nature, which too is mine own, I emanate, again and again, all these things that constitute the universe, r>y the power of this Nature, which by itself is without power.

"But I am not bound or entangled in these works, O Prince, for I sit on high, unattached and unbound by actions. I super-impose my power upon nature, and she builds up and tears down --- producing the animate and the inanimate; and thus the universal action proceeds and operates.

"The unenlightened, seeing Me in human form, and being ignorant of My true nature

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