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The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran

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Wisdom in Action ╯

attain it, you will never again be deluded. You

will see all creatures in the Self, and all in me.

36

Even if you were the most sinful of sinners, Arjuna,

you could cross beyond all sin by the raft of spiritual

wisdom. 37 As the heat of a fire reduces wood to

ashes, the fire of knowledge burns to ashes all karma.

38

Nothing in this world purifies like spiritual wisdom.

It is the perfection achieved in time through the path

of yoga, the path which leads to the Self within.

39

Those who take wisdom as their highest

goal, whose faith is deep and whose senses are

trained, attain wisdom quickly and enter into

perfect peace. 40 But the ignorant, indecisive

and lacking in faith, waste their lives. They can

never be happy in this world or any other.

41

Those established in the Self have renounced

selfish attachments to their actions and cut

through doubts with spiritual wisdom. They act

in freedom. 42 Arjuna, cut through this doubt

in your own heart with the sword of spiritual

wisdom. Arise; take up the path of yoga!

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