The Bhagavadgîtâ, with the Sanatsugâtîya and the Anugîtâ — SBE Vol. 8 (trans. K. T. Telang, 1882)

Open to allEdited by F. Max Müller; translated by Müller, Legge, Bühler, West, Darmesteter, Palmer, Telang, Thibaut, Jolly, Rhys Davids, Oldenberg, Jacobi, Bloomfield and others2259 segments · 127 pp
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The translator’s English as printed (K. T. Telang). The original-language text is not held; names are romanised as the translator printed them.

* Carelessness about duty, owing to being intent on something else. Cf Sutta Nipâta, pp. 51-91; Dhammapada, stanza 21; Kaṭhopanishad, p. 152.

* The effects of each quality assert themselves, when the other two are held in check. * Le. the senses of perception.

* Activity=always doing something or another; performance, &c.=rearing large mansions, &c.; want of tranquillity = perpetual agitation of mind, ‘this I will do now, then that, and next the other a desire=to obtain everything that one comes across.

* Le. doing absolutely nothing.

* The highest manifestations of Brahman, viz. the Hiraṇyagarbha, &c., say Srîdhara and Madhusûdana. Nîlakaṇṭha‘ha also suggests that ‘those who know the highest’ means gods.

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* Carelessness about duty, owing to being intent on something else. Cf Sutta Nipâta, pp. 51-91; Dhammapada, stanza 21; Kaṭhopanishad, p. 152.

* The effects of each quality assert themselves, when the other two are held in check. * Le. the senses of perception.

* Activity = always doing something or another; performance, &c. = rearing large mansions, &c.; want of tranquillity = perpetual agitation of mind, 'this I will do now, then that, and next the other'; desire = to obtain everything that one comes across.

* That is, doing absolutely nothing.

* The highest manifestations of Brahman — namely Hiraṇyagarbha and the like, say Srîdhara and Madhusûdana. Nîlakaṇṭha also suggests that "those who know the highest" means gods.

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