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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 -

These men torture the fair body, and torment the parts and principles of the same --- thus disturbing the soul which resideth within, and even Me who am within the soul in its inner chamber. Such are demoniacal, in their infernal resolves and wrongful practices.

"Know thus also, Arjuna, that there be three kinds of food which are dear to all mankind. Also are Worship, Zeal, and Charity threefold. Hearken thou to their distinctions.

"The food that is most agreeable to those in whom the Sattvas Guna is predominant, is that conducive to Long Life, Power and Strength, and which prevents Sickness, and renders one Happy and Contented. Such food is pleasing to the taste; nourishing, substantial, and gratifying to the hunger. Too bitter it is not; neither is it too sour, too salt, too hot, too pungent, too astringent, nor too burning. Those of the Rajas Guna nature, prefer food which is bitter, sour, hot, pungent, dry and burning, to an excessive degree -- that which stirs up the appetites, stimulates the taste-sense and produces, finally, pain, sickness, and dissatisfaction. Those who are under the rule of the dark Tamas Guna, in-

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