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"Nay, and of hearts which follow other gods
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In simple faith, their prayers arise to me,
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O Kunti’s Son! though they pray wrongfully:
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For I am the Receiver and the Lord
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Of every sacrifice, which these know not."
- Bhagavad-Gita, Ch: IX, Lines: 92-96.
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The Bhagavad-Gita. |
Chapter XII |
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“Here shall no end be hindered, no hope marred
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No loss be feared: faith—yea, a little faith—
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Shall save thee from the anguish of thy dread.”
- Bhagavad-Gita, Ch: II, Lines 140-142.
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ARJUNA:
“And what road goeth he who, having faith, |
Fails, Krishna! in the striving; falling back
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From holiness, missing the perfect rule?
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Is he not lost, straying from Brahma’s light,
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Like the vain cloud, which floats ’twixt earth and Heaven
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When lightning splits it, and it vanisheth?
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Fain would I hear thee answer me herein,
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Since, Krishna! none save thou can clear the doubt.”
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KRISHNA:
“He is not lost, thou Son of Prithâ! No! |
Nor earth, nor heaven is forfeit, even for him,
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Because no heart that holds one right desire
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Treadeth the road of loss! He who should fail,
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Desiring righteousness, cometh at death
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Unto the Region of the Just.”
- Bhagavad-Gita, Ch: VI, Lines 125-138.
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“Of many thousand mortals, one, perchance,
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Striveth for Truth; and of those few that strive—
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Nay, and rise high—one only—here and there—
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Knoweth Me, as I am, the very Truth.”
- Bhagavad-Gita, Ch: VII, Lines 8-11.
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“There be those, too, whose knowledge, turned aside
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By this desire or that, gives them to serve
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Some lower gods, with various rites, constrained
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By that which mouldeth them. Unto all such—
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Worship what shrine they will, what shapes, in faith—
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’Tis I who give them faith! I am content!
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The heart thus asking favor from its God,
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Darkened but ardent, hath the end it craves,
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The lesser blessing—but ’tis I who give!
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Yet soon is withered what small fruit they reap
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Those men of little minds, who worship so,
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Go where they worship, passing with their gods.
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But Mine come unto me! Blind are the eyes
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Which deem th’ Unmanifested manifest,
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Not comprehending Me in my true Self!
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Imperishable, viewless, undeclared,
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Hidden behind my magic veil of shows,
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I am not seen by all; I am not known—
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Unborn and changeless—to the idle world.
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But I, Arjuna! know all things which were,
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And all which are, and all which are to be,
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Albeit not one among them knoweth Me!”
- Bhagavad-Gita, Ch: VII, Lines 69-90.
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“Nay, and of hearts which follow other gods
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In simple faith, their prayers arise to me,
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O Kunti’s Son! though they pray wrongfully:
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For I am the Receiver and the Lord
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Of every sacrifice, which these know not
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Rightfully; so they fall to earth again!”
- Bhagavad-Gita, Ch: IX, Lines 92-97.
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“Yet not by the Vedas, nor from sacrifice,
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Nor penance, nor gift-giving, nor with prayer
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Shall any so behold, as thou hast seen!
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Only by fullest service, perfect faith,
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And uttermost surrender am I known
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And seen, and entered into, Indian Prince!
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Who doeth all for Me; who findeth Me
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In all; adoreth always; loveth all
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Which I have made, and Me, for Love’s sole end,
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That man, Arjuna! unto Me doth wend.”
- Bhagavad-Gita, Ch: XI, Lines 332-344.
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Bhagavad Gita....Vishnu and J. Robert Oppenheimer