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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 -

Universal Soul --- even when it is within one of Nature's bodily forms, never really acts nor is really affected. Because of its essential nature, it is above and beyond action. And being without beginning, and without qualities or attributes, it is beyond the storm of action and change. The Universal Ether is not affected by the action of objects within it and within which it is. And even so is the Universal Soul, in which are all material forms^ and which is within all material forms --- so is it unaffected by the action and changes of those forms, although it knows them all, as the Knower of the Known.

"Even as doth the single Sun illuminate the whole world, O Arjuna, so doth the One Soul illumine the whole of Nature --- the One Knower, the whole Field of the Known.

"And he who by the power of Spiritual Wisdom doth perceive this difference between the Soul and the Material and Personal Self; between the Soul and Nature and Nature's Principles --- between the Knower and the Known --- verily he perceiveth the liberation of the Soul from the illusion of Matter and Personality, and he passeth to the Spiritual Consciousness,

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