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- Chapter seventy of Religion, by the threefold kinds of faith Arjuna. If men forsake the holy ordinance, heedless of shastras, yet keep faith at heart and worship what shall be the state of those late Krishna Satwan Rajas Thomas say Krishna threefold. The faith is of mankind and springs from those three qualities, becoming true or passion stained or dark, as thou shalt hear, the faith of each believer Indian prince conforms itself to what he truly is. Where thou shalt see a worshiper that one to what he worships, lives assimilate, such as the shrine, So is the wotry. The Suthfa's souls adore true gods. The souls obeying Rajas worship Ratrasas or Yakshas. And the men of darkness pray to pretas and to bhutas Ay and those who practice bitter penance not enjoyed by rightful rule, balance which hath its root in self sufficient proud hypocrisies, those men passion viset violent while torturing the witless ones. My elements shut in fire company within their flesh Nay me myself present within the flesh, know them to devils devoted not to heaven. For like as foods are threefold for mankind in nourishing, so is there threefold way of worship, abstinence and almsgiving. Hear this of me. There is a food which brings force, substance, strength, and health and joy to live, being well seasoned, ordial, comforting, soothfast meat. And there being foods which break aches and undress and burning blood and grief, being too biting thing salt and sharp, and therefore craved by too strong appetite. And there is foul food kept from overnight, savorless, free, the which the foul will eat, a feast of rottenness, meat for the lips of such as love the darkness. Thus with rites, a sacrifice not for rewardment, made offered in rightful vise. When he who vows saith with heart devout. This I should do is sooth fast right, but sacrifice for gay offered for good repute. Be sure that this o best of Barathas is us right with stamp of passion, and a sacrifice offered against the loss, with no due goal of foodgiving, with no accompaniment of hallowed him nor largness to the priests in faithless celebration, call it why the deed of darkness, law, worship of God's meriting, worship slowly, reverence of twice bonds, teachers purity, rectitude, and the dramataria's war, and not to endure any helpless thing. These make a true religeousness of act, words causing no man woe, words ever true gentle and pleasing words, and those aysay in murmured reading of sacred writ These make the true religiousness of speech, serenity of soul, benignity, sway of the silent spirit, constant stress to sanctify the nature. These things make good, right and true religiousness of mind. Such threefold faith in highest piety, kept with no hope of gain by heart's devote is perfect work of subtuan, true belief, religion shown in act of proud display to win good entertainment. Worship faith such say I is a progest and be religion followed by a witless will to tortureself or come a power to hurt another of thomas, dark and ill. The gift lovingly given when one shall say, now, must I gladly give? When he who takes can render nothing back. Made in due place, due time, and to a meet recipient is gift of supplan, fair and profitable. The gift selfishly given where to receive is hope again, or when some end is sought, or where the gift is proffered with a grudge, This is of Rajaus, staying with impulse ill. The gift churlishly flung at evil time, in wrongful place to base recipient, made in this daying half unkindliness, is gift of Thomas dark. It does not bless here in the chapter servage of the Bagad guitar entitles Ayavi Babiyot or the Book of Religion by the Threefold Kinds of Faith. End of chapter seventeen of the Babwad Gita