The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran

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which all these evolved. 6 In this field arise desire and
aversion, pleasure and pain, the body, intelligence,
and will.
7
Those who know truly are free from pride and deceit.
They are gentle, forgiving, upright, and pure, devoted
to their spiritual teacher, filled with inner strength, and
self-controlled. 8 Detached from sense objects and selfwill,
they have learned the painful lesson of separate
birth and suffering, old age, disease, and death.
9
Free from selfish attachment, they do not get
compulsively entangled even in home and family.
They are even-minded through good fortune and bad.
10
Their devotion to me is undivided. Enjoying solitude
and not following the crowd, they seek only me. 11 This
is true knowledge, to seek the Self as the true end of
wisdom always. To seek anything else is ignorance.
12
I will tell you of the wisdom that leads to
immortality: the beginningless Brahman, which
can be called neither being nor non-being.
13
It dwells in all, in every hand and foot and head,
in every mouth and eye and ear in the universe.
14
Without senses itself, it shines through the
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