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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 -

bonds of Ignorance, Stupidity, Heedlessness and Low-Content.

'To Sattvas Guna, pertaineth Wisdom and Harmony; to Rajas Guna pertaineth Action and Possessions; and to Tamos Guna pertaineth Sloth, Stupidity and Indolence. When one overcometh the Tamas and the Rajas, then the Sattvas reigneth. When the Rajas and Sattvas are overcome, then reigneth the Tamas. When the Tamas and Sattvas have been overcome, then reigneth the Rajas. ' "When Wisdom is manifest in one, then know that the Sattvas is the ruling Guna. When great Action is manifest, or great Desire is apparent, then know you that Rajas is the Guna ruling. When Stupidity, Sloth, Idleness and Lack of Thought is manifest, then know thou truly that Tamas Guna is on the throne.

"When the soul forsakes the body in which the Sattvas ruleth, then does it proceed to the plane inhabited by the Wise and Intelligent. When it leaves the body in which the Rajas hath been the strongest, then doth it pass to the plane of rest, from whence in time it is reborn again in a body adapted to the manifestation

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