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12 - Of the Religion of Faith - Bhagavad Gita · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twelve of the Religion of Faith. Arjuna. Lord of
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  Speaker 1: the men who serve thee true in heart as God reveal'd,
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  Speaker 1: And of the men who serve worshiping thee unreveal'd unbodied,
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  Speaker 1: far which take the better way of faith and life Krishna,
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  Speaker 1: whoever serve me as I shew myself constantly true in
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  Speaker 1: full devotion fix'd these hold I very holy. But who
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  Speaker 1: serve worshiping me the one, the invisible, the unrevealed, unnamed, unthinkable, uttermost,
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  Speaker 1: all pervading, highest sure, who thus adore me, mastering their
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  Speaker 1: sense of one, set mind to all glad in all good.
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  Speaker 1: These blessed souls come unto me. Yet the travail is
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  Speaker 1: for whoso bend their minds to reach the unmanifest. That
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  Speaker 1: viewless path shall scarce be trod by man bearing his flesh.
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  Speaker 1: But wheereso any doeth all his deeds, renouncing self in me,
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  Speaker 1: full of me, fix to serve only the highest night
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  Speaker 1: and day, musing on me him, will I swiftly lift
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  Speaker 1: forth from life's ocean of distress and death. Whose soul
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  Speaker 1: clings fast to me, cling thou to me, class me
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  Speaker 1: with heart and mind, So shalt thou dwell surely with
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  Speaker 1: me on high. But if thy thought droops from such height,
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  Speaker 1: if thou beest weak to set body and soul upon
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  Speaker 1: me constantly despair, not give me lower service. Seek to
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  Speaker 1: read me, worshiping with steadfast will. And if thou canst
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  Speaker 1: not worship steadfastly, work for me toil in word truks
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  Speaker 1: pleasing to me, for he that laboreth right for love
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  Speaker 1: of me shall finally attain. But if in this thy
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  Speaker 1: faint heart fails, bring me thy failure, find refuge in me,
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  Speaker 1: Let fruits of labor go, renouncing all for me with
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  Speaker 1: lowliest heart. So shalt thou come. For though to know
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  Speaker 1: is more than diligence, yet worship better is than knowing,
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  Speaker 1: and renouncing better still near to renunciation, very near dwelleth
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  Speaker 1: eternal peace, who hateth not of all which lives, living himself, benign,
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  Speaker 1: compassionate from arrogance, exempt, exempt from love of self, unchangeable
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  Speaker 1: by good or ill, patient, contented, firm in faith, mastering
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  Speaker 1: himself true to his word, seeking me heart and soul,
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  Speaker 1: vowed unto me that man I love who troubleth not
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  Speaker 1: his kind, and is not troubled by them, clear of wrath,
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  Speaker 1: living too high for gladness, of grief or fear. That
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  Speaker 1: man I love, who dwelling, quiet eyed, stainless, serene, well balanced, unperplexed,
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  Speaker 1: working with me, yet from all works detached, That man
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  Speaker 1: I love, who fixed in faith on me, doats upon none,
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  Speaker 1: scorns none, rejoices not, and grieves not, letting good and
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  Speaker 1: evil hap light when it will and when it will depart.
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  Speaker 1: That man I love, who, unto friend and foe, keeping
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  Speaker 1: an equal heart with equal mind, bears shame and glory,
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  Speaker 1: with an equal peace, takes heat and cold, pleasure and pain, abides,
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  Speaker 1: quit of desires, hears praise or calumny, in passionless restraint,
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  Speaker 1: unmoved by each, linked by no ties to earth, steadfast
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  Speaker 1: in me, that man I love, But most of all
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  Speaker 1: I love those happy ones to whom tis life to
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  Speaker 1: live in single, fervid faith and love, unseeing, eating the
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  Speaker 1: blessed amrit of my being. End of Chapter twelve.