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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 universe hath no creator, but is in itself without beginning or end, and is its own cause. They deny the existence of Law or Truth in the universe. And they deny the existence of Spirit. They believe in Materialism, in Godlessness, and they hold that Lust is the moving and operating cause of all things, bringing about mutual union and reproduction.

"And, believing these evil and foolish things, these men of imperfect understanding, with this conception fixed in their minds, devote themselves to evil deeds and sow in the world the seeds of Evil Thought and Error. They live for Carnal Enjoyment, teaching this as the highest good. They strive after gratification of sensual appetites, and the creation of new appetites --- and there is no peace or satisfaction in them, for appetite springeth from appetite, and the sensual craving groweth more acute in the measure in which it is gratified. Such men are hypocrites, and full of madness and intoxication.

"Because of their folly and false reasoning, they invent new doctrines and theories, and give themselves to the material life of sensual

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