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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 -

Following the letter instead of the spirit, they imitate the worship, and perform the churchly rites and ceremonies, with much show of zeal; with much outward show and display; and with ostentatious scattering of alms. Their Ignorance, and Conceit, and Self-esteem follow them into the temple, and they pollute the holy places with their thievish presence and natures.

"Being filled with Pride, Power, Ostentation, Lust and Selfishness, they are consumed with H^ate, Malice and Slander, and hate Me in themselves and in others. Wherefore, are these vile, sensual, hating, pitiless ones --- these evil beings who hate Me and all that is Good --- cast down into continual re-birth into the wombs of mire and filth and uncleanliness.

"And, if even in these lower depths of uncleanliness, they learn not the lesson, and grow not sick and filled with nausea at the filth of sensuality and long not to begin the upward path from the Hell into which they have been cast--- if they learn not even this lesson, but, instead, still true to their nature, they prefer to sink to lower and still lower planes --- then finally they sink into the final stage which

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