Bhagavad Gita: chapter 4 verse 17 - english translation and commentary
"One has to understand what action is, and likewise one has to understand what is wrong action and one has to understand about inaction. Hard to un...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 4 verse 16 - english translation and commentary
"What is action? What is inaction?-as to this even the wise are bewildered. I will declare to thee what action is, knowing which thou shalt be deli...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 4 verse 18 - english translation and commentary
"He who in action sees inaction and action in inaction, he is wise among men, he is a yogin and he has accomplished all his work".
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 4 verse 14 - english translation and commentary
"Works do not defile Me; nor do I have yearning for their fruit. He who knows Me thus is not bound by works".
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 4 verse 15 - english translation and commentary
"So knowing was work done also by the men of old who sought liberation. Therefore do thou also work as the ancients did in former times".
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 4 verse 11 - english translation and commentary
"As men approach me so do I accept them: men on all sides follow my path, O Partha (Arjuna)".
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 4 verse 10 - english translation and commentary
"Delivered from passion, fear and anger, absorbed in Me, taking refuge in Me, many purified by the austerity of wisdom, have attained to My state o...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 4 verse 13 - english translation and commentary
"The fourfold order was created by Me according to the divisions of quality and work. Though I am its creator, know Me to be incapable of action or...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 4 verse 12 - english translation and commentary
"Those who desire the fruition of their works on earth offer sacrifices to the gods (the various forms of the one Godhead) for the fruition of work...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 4 verse 9 - english translation and commentary
"He who knows thus in its true nature My divine birth and works, is not born again, when he leaves his body but comes to Me, O Arjuna".
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 4 verses 7 and 8 - english translation and commentary
"Whenever there is a decline of righteousness and rise of unrighteousness, O Bhārata (Arjuna), then I send forth (create incarnate) Myself. For the...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 4 verse 2 - english translation and commentary
"Thus handed down from one to another the royal sages knew it till that yoga was lost to the world through long lapse of time, O Oppressor of the f...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 4 verse 5 - english translation and commentary
"The Blessed Lord said: Many are My lives that are past, and yours also, O Arjuna; all of them I know but you do not know, O Scourge of the foe (Ar...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 4 verse 1 - english translation and commentary
"The Blessed Lord said:I proclaimed this imperishable yoga to Vivasvān, Vivasvān told it to Manu and Manu spoke it to Iksvāku".
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 2 verse 31 - english translation and commentary
"Further, having regard for your own duty, you should not falter, there exists no greater good for a Ksatriya than a battle enjoined by duty".
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 4 introduction in english
Bhagavad Gita class given on 1 May 2012 at the London offices of international law firm CMS Cameron McKenna. Based on the teachings by the internat...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 43 - english translation and commentary
"Thus knowing him who is beyond the intelligence, steadying the (lower) self by the Self, smite, O Mighty-armed (Arjuna), the enemy in the form of ...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 4 verse 6 - english translation and commentary
"Though (I am) unborn, and My self (is) imperishable, though (I am) the lord of all creatures, yet establishing Myself in my own nature, I come int...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 4 verse 3 - english translation and commentary
"This same ancient yoga has been today declared to you by Me; for you are My devotee and My friend; and this is the supreme secret".
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 4 verse 4 - english translation and commentary
"Arjuna said: Later was Your birth and earlier was the birth of Vivasvat. How then am I to understand that you did declare it to him in the beginn...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 35 - english translation and commentary
"Better is one's own law though imperfectly carried out than the law of another carried out perfectly. Better is death in (the fulfilment) of one'...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 37 - english translation and commentary
"The Blessed Lord said: This is craving, this is wrath, born of the mode of passion, all devouring and most sinful. Know this to be the enemy here...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 41 - english translation and commentary
"Therefore, O Best of Bharatas (Arjuna), control your senses from the beginning and slay this sinful destroyer of wisdom and discrimination".
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 40 - english translation and commentary
"The senses, the mind and the intelligence are said to be its seat. Veiling wisdom by these, it deludes the embodied (soul)".
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 39 - english translation and commentary
"Enveloped is wisdom, O Son of Kunti (Arjuna), by this insatiable fire of desire, which is the constant foe of the wise".
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 38 - english translation and commentary
"As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror by dust, as an embryo is enveloped by the womb, so is this covered by that (passion)".
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 36 - english translation and commentary
"Arjuna said:
(36) But by what is a man impelled to commit sin, as if by force, even against his will, O Vārsneya (Krsna)?"
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 34 - english translation and commentary
"For (every) sense attachment and aversion are fixed (in regard) to the objects of (that) sense. Let no one come under their sway for they are his...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 33 - english translation and commentary
"Even the man of knowledge acts in accordance with his own nature. Beings follow their nature. What can repression accomplish?"
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 32 - english translation and commentary
"But those who slight My teaching and do not follow it, know them to be blind to all wisdom, lost and senseless".
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 31 - english translation and commentary
"Those men, too, who, full of faith and free from cavil, constantly follow this teaching of Mine are released from (the bondage of) works".
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 42 - english translation and commentary
"The senses, they say, are great, greater than the senses is the mind, greater than the mind is the intelligence but greater than the intelligence ...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 28 - english translation and commentary
"But he who knows the true character of the two distinctions (of the soul) and from the modes of nature and their works, O Mighty-armed (Arjuna), u...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 30 - english translation and commentary
"Resigning all your works to Me, with your consciousness fixed in the Self, being free from desire and egoism, fight delivered from your fever".
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 29 - english translation and commentary
"Those who are misled by the modes of nature get attached to the works produced by them. But let no one who knows the whole unsettle the minds of ...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 27 - english translation and commentary
"While all kinds of work are done by the modes of nature, he whose soul is bewildered by self-sense thinks "I am the doer"".
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 26 - english translation and commentary
"Let him (jnānin) not unsettle the minds of the ignorant who are attached to action. The enlightened man doing all works in a spirit of yoga, shou...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 25 - english translation and commentary
"As the unlearned act from attachment to their work, so should the learned also act, O Bhārata (Arjuna), but without any attachment, with the desir...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 21 - english translation and commentary
"Whatsoever a great man does, the same is done by others as well. Whatever standards he sets, the world follows".
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 24 - english translation and commentary
"If I should cease to work, these worlds would fall in ruin and I should be the creator of disordered life and destroy these people".
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 20 - english translation and commentary
"It was even by works that Janaka and others attained to perfection. You should do works also with a view to the maintenance of the world".
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 23 - english translation and commentary
"For, if ever I did not engage in work unwearied, O Pārtha (Arjuna), men in every way follow my path".
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 22 - english translation and commentary
"There is not for me, O Pārtha (Arjuna), any work in the three worlds which has to be done nor anything to be obtained which has not been obtained;...
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 19 - english translation and commentary
"Therefore, without attachment, perform well always the work that has to be done, for man attains to the highest by doing work without attachment"....
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Bhagavad Gita: chapter 3 verse 14 - english translation and commentary
"From food creatures come into being; from rain is the birth of food; from sacrifice rain comes into being and sacrifice is born of work".
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