Eknath Easwaran

The Bhagavad Gita

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    No one should abandon duties because he sees defects in them. Every action, every activity, is surrounded by defects as a fire is surrounded by smoke.
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    That which seems like poison at first, but tastes like nectar in the end – this is the joy of sattva
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    Work performed to fulfill one’s obligations, without thought of personal reward or of whether the job is pleasant or unpleasant, is sattvic
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    The means, the act itself, and the doer: these three are the totality of action.
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    we can never be sure that things will turn out as planned.
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    we have control over our work and actions, but we have no command of the results
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    Those who are sattvic worship the forms of God; those who are rajasic worship power and wealth. Those who are tamasic worship spirits and ghosts
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    Our faith conforms to our nature, Arjuna. Human nature is made of faith. A person is what his shraddha is.
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    We might say that our shraddha is the sum total of our values, what we really hold to be important in our lives.
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    16 Bound by their greed and entangled in a web of delusion, whirled about by a fragmented mind, they fall into a dark hell.
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