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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 -

I am rich and overflowing with wealth. I take precedence among other men. Where is there one alike so perfect, wise, and shrewd as I? I will scatter handfuls of money among the throng, that they may realize my bounty, and know how great, powerful and rich am I -- yea, even 1/ In this manner do these fools talk --- they who imagine themselves wise, but who in reality have disordered and unbalanced minds.

"And such, confounded and confused in their minds by reason of their delusions, excesses, and vain living --- they become entangled in the nets of their own desires and attachments. And the weight of their objects of attachment, holding them fast, drags them down into the quicksands of Hell, which is the repeated rebirth into the lower and lower planes of the mire and slime of Maternality and Sensuality. There is no Hell like unto this, even among the imaginings of those who would teach of places of torment and torture --- this is the most fearful Hell of all.

"Yea, and some of these men, in their hypocrisy and desire to appear well before the world, do even ape piety and true religion.

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