The Bhagavad-gîta: "The Songs of the Master"Charles Johnston Quarterly Book Department, 1908 - 61 páginas "The Bhagavad Gita is one of the noblest scriptures of India, one of the deepest scriptures of the world. It is rich in beauty and full of poetic power. The characters stand out in heroic grandeur, in the midst of a splendid setting of martial valor. The figures of Arjuna, very human in despondency and doubt, and of Krishna, majestic, resolute, persuasive, are clear, living, of universal truth. On another side, the Bhagavad Gita is full of inspiration, of religious devotion, of keenest insight into the heart of man. The conflict of motives that beset human action, the clinging fetters of selfishness which check us in the path to the immortal, the subtle evasions of the lurking whisperer in the heart: all are clearly seen and vividly revealed. Yet, withal, the claims of abstract thought are not forgotten; every stage of Indian philosophy, every shade of logic and metaphysics, is given its place; and many practical suggestions are put forward, touching the problems of Indian politics and history, hints as valid to-day in human affairs as they were two thousand years ago."--Introduction, page [vii] |
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ancient Arjuna attachment battle behold Bhagavad Gita Bhishma birth body bondage born Brahmans Buddhi comes conqueror of wealth consciousness Darkness death declare to thee delusion descendant of Bharata desire Dhritarashtra disciple divine Drona Drupada Duryodhana dwell earth enter Eternal everlasting faith father fear fire flowing hair follower of union followers of Yoga Force fruit gain gifts gods heart higher Ikshvaku immortal India INTRODUCTION TO BOOK Kapila Katha Upanishad knower Krishna Kunti Kuru liberation Logos Lord lust Mahabharata manifested MASTER mind Mystery Nirvana offering Oversoul Pandu peace penance perceive poem Pritha psychical nature race Radiance Rajputs rebirth renunciation reward rites sacrifice SANJAYA Sankhya scripture seek seeker of union Seers Shudra slay son of Pritha Soul soul-vision Spirit Substance supreme teaching things Thou art thou shalt thought Three Powers threefold truth unmanifest unwisdom Upanishads Vaishyas valor Vedanta Vedas verily verses Vishvamitra vision Vrishni wisdom wise worship
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Página xxxviii - ... that Unity, that Over-Soul, within which every man's particular Being is contained and made one with all other; that common heart of which all sincere conversation is the worship, to which all right action is submission; that overpowering reality which confutes our tricks and talents, and...
Página xviii - He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me : and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
Página xviii - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Página xlii - Lord of lords ; who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen, nor can see : to whom be honour and power everlasting.
Página lv - And he said, This will I do : I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Página xliii - I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day; and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying; I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last; and what thou seest write in a book...
Página xlvi - He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Página lviii - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house ? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him ; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Página xliii - And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Página liv - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.