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\n\t\tCHAPTER THREE<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\n
\nurjoona<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

O \u201cIf indeed to Thy mind
\nThought is mightier than action, O Janardan<\/span>, vexer<\/span> of the host, wherefore then dost thou yoke me to a
\ndark and fearful deed? \u2018Tis<\/span> as if thou wouldst
\nbewilder me with mixed and tangled speech, therefore speak decidedly one clear
\nthing which shall guide me to my highest welfare.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n
\nkrishna<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\t
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\u201cTwo are the ways of
\ndevotion in this world; already have I declared it to thee, O sinless one: the
\ndevotion of the men of the Sankhyas<\/span> is by single\u00adness
\nin knowledge, by singleness in works is the devotion of the men of Yoga. Not by
\nrefraining from works shall a man taste actionlessness<\/span>,
\nand not by renouncing of the world shall he reach perfection. For verily no man
\neven for a moment remains without doing, since each is made to do whether he
\nwill or not by the moods of his essential nature. He who coerceth<\/span>
\nthe organs of action, and sitteth<\/span> remembering in his
\nheart the things in which the senses work, is a man deceived in spirit, him
\nthey call hypo\u00adcrite, but whosoever governeth<\/span> the
\nsenses with his mind, O Urjoona<\/span>, and entereth<\/span> on Yoga in works using the organs of action
\nwithout attachment, is distinguished above all beings. Do thou works that the
\nlaw demands of thee, for action is mightier than inaction; yea, without works
\nthe very maintenance of thy body cannot be. \u2018Tis<\/span> by
\ndoing works in other spirit than as a sacrifice, that this world of creatures falleth<\/span> into bondage to its ? <\/b>works; but do thou <\/i>practise<\/span> <\/i>works as a sacrifice, O son of County,
\nwith a.<\/i> mind free from the yoke of attachment. For with Sacrifice the Father,
\nof old, created all people and said unto them, \u201c<\/b>By Sacrifice shall ye
\nbeget offspring; lo, the chosen joys of your desire, they shall be to you the
\nmilk of her udders. Cherish you the gods with Sacrifice, and the gods shall
\ncherish in turn; thus by cherishing each other shall ye attain to your highest
\nwelfare. Cherished with sacrifice the gods shall bestow on you the joys you
\nmost desire\u201d; and he is no better than a thief who enjoyeth<\/span>
\nwhat they give, and giveth<\/span> not to them again. The
\ngood who eat the remnants of the Sacri\u00adfice are delivered from all their
\ntransgressions, but the accursed eat and drink sin who cook their food but for
\ntheir own selfish bellies. From food all creatures are born, and from rain is
\nthe birth of food, but rain ariseth<\/span> from the
\nSacrifice and Sacrifice hath its root in works; works know to be <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n born of the Eternal, for by
\nthe imperishable word of the Eternal they were brought into being. Therefore is
\nthe Eternal everywhere and in all things; yea. He hath His home for ever in the
\nheart of the Sacrifice. This is the wheel that God hath set going, and who goeth<\/span> not with it, whose days are a wickedness, whose
\ndelight and ease are in the senses, liveth<\/span> his life
\nin vain, O son of Pritha<\/span>. But for the man whose whole
\npleasure is in the spirit and who satisfies his longing with the Spirit, yea,
\nwho is utterly content with the Spirit, for him there is no needful action.
\nFor, indeed, he hath no end at all to gain by doing neither any by not doing,
\nhe hath no dependence for end or aim on any in even this whole world of
\ncreatures. Therefore, with\u00adout attachment do ever the work before thee, since
\nby doing works with\u00adout attachment man reacheth<\/span> the
\nHighest. \u2018Twas<\/span> by works alone that the men of old
\nreached to utter perfection, even Junak<\/span> and the rest.
\nMoreover, even if thou lookest<\/span> to the right
\ngovernment of the world, thou shouldest<\/span> be doing.
\nWhat they see their Greatest do, even that the rest of the folk will practise<\/span>, and the standard that the Best setteth<\/span> up, the world will surely follow. Behold, O Partha<\/span>, there is nought<\/span> at all in
\nthe three worlds that I must do. There is nothing I have not, or that I yet
\nneed to win, and still I move in the path of works. For verily were I not to
\nmove sleeplessly in the path of works, \u2014 lo, men follow utterly the way wherein
\nI tread, O son of Pritha<\/span>, \u2014 then would all these
\nworlds sink and perish were I not to do works, and I should become the creator
\nof bastard confusion and the slayer of all these creatures. That which the
\nignorant do with attachment to the work, O Bharata<\/span>,
\nthe wise man should do without attachment, wishing only to keep the world in
\nits traces. Let him not be the cause of division and con\u00adfusion of mind in the
\nignorant who are attached to their works, but let him, knowing all, set them to
\nall the works of this world by doing works in Yoga. Lo, works are done but by
\nthe modes of Nature in their inevitable working, but the spirit of man is
\ndeceived by the sense of separate existence and he sayth<\/span>
\nin himself, \u201cI, even I, am the doer\u201d. But he who knoweth<\/span>
\nto the core how the workings of the modes are parcelled<\/span>
\nout, believeth that the modes work in and upon the modes, and suffereth<\/span> not attachment to seize him. But most men who are
\ndeceived by the modes of Nature cling) to her mode-workings; these men of dull
\nbrains, these imperfect knowers<\/span>, let not the perfect
\nknower cause to swerve and stumble.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\\<\/font>Reposing all thy works upon Me and with thy heart
\nspiritually inclined, be desireless<\/span>, be selfless;
\nthen arise, fight, O Urjoona<\/span>, let the fever of thy
\nsoul pass from thee. For men who with faith and without carping <\/span><\/p>\n

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follow this my Word are
\nreleased, they also, from bondage to their works; but they who carp at and
\nfollow not this my word, know of them that all their knowledge is a delusion;
\ntheir intellect is nought, they are lost men, Urjoona. Lo, even the wise man who
\nknoweth can but act according to his own essential nature; for to their nature
\nall creatures come at last, and what shall coercing it avail ? Only in the field
\nof each and every sense Jove and hate are there, and ever they lie in ambush;
\nlet not the Spirit of man fall into their clutches, for they are his adversaries
\nin his great journey. Better is it, the rule of thine own life ill done, than to
\nfollow an alien rule well-accomplished. Yea, death in the path of one\u2019s own
\nnature is better:<\/span><\/p>\n

\nit is a fearful and perilous thing
\nto follow the law of another\u2019s being.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\nurjoona<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n\u201cWho then is this by whom man is
\nimpelled that he worketh sin in the world, yea, though he will it not, O
\nVarshneya, if forced to it by very vio\u00adlence?\u201d                          <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\nkrishna<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n\u201cIt is craving, it is wrath, the
\nchild of Rajoguna, mode of Passion. Know him for Fiend, the Enemy of Man\u2019s soul
\nhere on earth, a great devourer, a mighty sinner. As a fire engirt with smoke,
\nas a mirror covered with dust, as the unborn child with the caul, so is the
\nuniverse by him enveloped. By him knowledge is besieged and girt round, O son of
\nCoonty, by this eternal enemy of the wise, this insatiable fire of desire and
\npassion. The senses, the soul and the overmind, these three are the places of
\nhis session, with these he cloudeth over knowledge and bewildereth the embodied
\nspirit. Therefore in the beginning constrain the senses, O Lion of the Bharatas,
\nand slay that accursed with the sword of Knowledge and Discern\u00adment. High, say
\nthe wise, reign the senses, but the heart is higher than they; and the overmind
\nis higher than the heart; he who is higher than the overmind, that is He. Thus
\nwhen thou hast understood him who is higher than the overmind, slay thy enemy, O
\nstrong-armed, even that terrible and invincible one whose shape is passion.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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