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Bhagavad Gita Adhyay(Chapter) : 18

Liberation Through   Renunciation ; Moksha Sanyasa Yoga Arjuna said, O mighty-armed one, I wish to understand the purpose of renunciation [tyaga] and of the renounced order of life [sannyasa], O killer of the Kesi demon, master of the senses. The Supreme personality of Godhead said, To giving up the activities which are based on material desires is what great learned man  called the renounced order of life [sannyasa], And giving up the   results of all activities is  wise man  called renunciation [tyaga]. Some learned men declare that all kinds of fruitive activities should be given up, but there are yet other sages who maintain that acts of sacrifice, charity and penance( self-punishment ) should never be abandoned. O best of the Bharatas, hear from Me now about renunciation. O tiger among men, there are three kinds of renunciation declared in the scriptures. Acts of sacrifice, charity and penance are not to be given up but shou...

Bhagavad Gita Adhyay(Chapter) : 15

The Yoga of the Supreme Spirit ; Purushottama Yoga The Supreme Personality of Godhead   said: There is a banyan tree which has its roots upward and its branches down and whose leaves are the Vedic hymns. One who knows this tree is the knower of the Vedas. The branches of this tree extend downward and upward, nourished by the three modes of material nature. The twigs( slender woody shoot growing from a branch or stem of a tree or shrub ) are the objects of the senses. This tree also has roots going down, and these are bound to the fruitive actions of human society. The real form of this tree cannot be perceived in this world. No one can understand where it ends, where it begins, or where its foundation is. But with determination one must cut down this tree with the weapon of detachment. So doing, one must seek that place from which, having once gone, one never returns, and there surrender to that Supreme Personality of Godhead from whom everything has begun and in w...

Bhagavad Gita Adhyay(Chapter) : 1

Arjuna's Grief ; Arjuna Vishada( low spirits from loss of hope or courage )   Yoga              " D hritarashtra   said: O Sanjaya, after my sons and the sons of Pandu assembled in the place of pilgrimage at Kurukshetra( war zone ), desiring to fight, what did they do?"   " S anjaya said: O King, after looking over the army arranged in military formation by the sons of Pandu, King Duryodhana went to his teacher and spoke the following words."            " O  my teacher, behold the great army of the sons of Pandu, so expertly arranged by your intelligent disciple the son of Drupada."       " H ere in this army are many heroic bowmen equal in fighting to Bhima and Arjuna: great fighters like Yuyudhana, Virata and Drupada."     " T here are also great, heroic, powerful fighters like Dhrishtaketu, Cekitana, Kasiraja, Puruj...