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The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran

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The Royal Path ╯

15

Others follow the path of jnana, spiritual

wisdom. They see that where there is One,

that One is me; where there are many, all

are me; they see my face everywhere.

16

I am the ritual and the sacrifice; I am true medicine

and the mantram. I am the offering and the fire which

consumes it, and the one to whom it is offered.

17

I am the father and mother of this universe, and its

grandfather too; I am its entire support. I am the sum

of all knowledge, the purifier, the syllable Om ; I am

the sacred scriptures, the Rig, Yajur, and Sama Vedas.

18

I am the goal of life, the Lord and support

of all, the inner witness, the abode of all. I am

the only refuge, the one true friend; I am the

beginning, the staying, and the end of creation;

I am the womb and the eternal seed.

19

I am heat; I give and withhold the

rain. I am immortality and I am death;

I am what is and what is not.

20

Those who follow the rituals given in the

Vedas, who offer sacrifices and take soma, free

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