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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 -

"The three great Gunas, or Principles of Nature, oft times called the Three Qualities, and which are inherent in, and which spring from Nature, are known by these names, O Prince; Salivas, or Truth; Rajas, or Passion; and Tamas, or Indifference --- these be the Three. And each, and all, tend to bind the Soul within the Body --- the Universal Soul within Nature. As Above so Below, the Three serve to bind and hold the higher to the lower. But the binding differeth in its nature, O Prince, though all are bonds. Thus Sattvas, or Truth, being pure and stainless, bindeth the soul by attachment to Wisdom and Harmony, and bringeth it back to re-birth because of the bonds of Knowledge and Understanding. And, Rajas, or Passion, is of the nature of burning Desire, and doth bind the soul by attachment to Action, and Things and Objects, and doth bring it back to re-birth because of the bonds of Worldly Hunger and Thirst for Having and Doing. And Tamas, or Indifference, is of an ignorant, dark, stupid and heavy nature, and bindeth the soul by attachment to Sloth, and Idleness, and Folly and Indolence, bringing it back to re-birth because of the

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