Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita, often referred to as simply the Gita, is a 700-verse Hindu scripture in Sanskrit that is part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata...
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They prescribe various specific rites for the attainment of pleasure and power to those who are full of desires, and hold the attainment of heaven as the highest goal of life. The rebirth is their fruit of action.
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Filled with insatiable desires, hypocrisy, pride, and arrogance; holding wrong views due to delusion; they act with impure motives.
eyes fix head hold mind steadily
Hold the waist, spine, chest, neck, and head erect, motionless and steady, fix the eyes and the mind steadily between the eye brows, and do not look around.
body dwelling immortal
The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable.
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The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path.
animate creates creation inanimate keeps thus
The nature, under My supervision, creates all animate and inanimate objects; and thus the creation keeps on going.
achieve acquired again birth knowledge previous strives taking
After taking such a birth, O Arjuna, one regains the knowledge acquired in the previous life, and strives again to achieve perfection.
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I hurl these haters, cruel, sinful, and mean people of the world, into the wombs of demons again and again.
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O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind.
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O Krishna, I have heard from You in detail about the origin and dissolution of beings, and Your imperishable glory.
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O King, by repeated remembrance of this marvelous and sacred dialogue between Lord Krishna and Arjuna, I am thrilled at every moment; and / Recollecting again and again, O King, that marvelous form of Krishna I am greatly amazed and I rejoice over and over again.
bliss desires free mind supreme whose yogi
Supreme bliss comes to a Self-realized yogi whose mind is tranquil, whose desires are under control, and who is free from sin.
anyone easily free liberated
Anyone free from the dualities, O Arjuna, one is easily liberated from bondage.
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A person is said to have attained yogic perfection when there is no desire for sensual pleasures, or attachment to the fruits of work, and has renounced all personal selfish motives.