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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 are the body; the acting mind; the various energies; the muscles and nerves; and the soul. All work or actions which engageth a man --- the work of the body, or work of the mind, or speech, whether good or evil, lawful or unlawful, hath these five agents in operation in the performance. He therefore, who knoweth this, and yet conceiveth the Real Self to be the sole agent of the action is as one blind, and seeth not in truth. He who hath freed himself from the bonds of Personality, and who hath gained Right Understanding, verily he knoweth that although he destroyeth these hosts gathered together in battle-array, yet hath he killed not at all, nor is he bound by the Fruit of his Action in his re-births.

"There be Three Moving Causes of Action --- those which precede the performance of every act --- they are Dyana or Knowledge; Dyena, or the Object of Knowledge; and Parijnata, or the Knower. Thus the Knowledge, the Known, and the Knower --- these be the three Moving Causes of Action. Likewise is the accomplishment of an action, three-

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