Anugita
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Like the Bhagavadgita and the Sanatsugatiya, the Anugita, is one of the numerous episodes of the Mahabharata. And like the Sanatsugatiya, it appears here for the first time in an English, or, indeed, it is believed, in any European garb.
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| Chapter I |
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Ganamegaya said : What conversation, O twice-born one I took place between the high-souled Kesava and Arguna, while they dwelt in that palace after slaying their enemies?
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| Chapter II |
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Vasudeva said :Then grasping his feet, Kasyapa, asked questions very difficult to explain, and all of them that (being), the best of the supporters of piety, did explain.
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| Chapter III |
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There is no destruction here of actions good or not good. Coming to one body after another they become ripened in their respective ways. As a fruitful (tree) producing fruit may yield much fruit, so does merit performed with a pure mind become expanded.
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| Chapter IV |
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He who becoming placid, and thinking of nought, may become absorbed in the one receptacle, abandoning each previous (element), he will cross beyond (all) bonds.
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| Chapter V |
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On this, too, O chief of the descendants of Bharata! they relate this ancient story, (in the form of) a dialogue, which occurred, O son of Pritha! between a husband and wife.
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| Chapter VI |
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The Brahmana said : On this, too, they relate this ancient story. Learn now of what description is the institution of the ten sacrificial priests. The ear, the tongue, the nose, the two feet, the two hands, speech, the genital organ, and the anus, these, verity, are ten sacrificial priests, O beautiful one!
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| Chapter VII |
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The Brahmana said : On this, too, O beautiful one! they relate this ancient story, (which shows) of what description is the institution of the seven sacrificial priests.
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| Chapter VIII |
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The Brahmana said : On this, too, they relate an ancient story, O beautiful one! (showing) of what description is the institution of the five sacrificial priests.
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| Chapter IX |
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The Brahmana said : On this, too, they relate this ancient story, a dialogue between Narada and the sage Devamata.
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| Chapter X |
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On this, too, they relate an ancient story (showing) of what nature is the institution of the Katurhotra. The due performance of it in its entirety is now taught. Hear me, O good woman! state this wonderful mystery.
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| Chapter XI |
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There is one director 1; there is no second director. I speak concerning him who abides in the heart. This being, the director, dwells in the heart and directs (all creatures).
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| Chapter XII |
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The Brahmana said : I have crossed beyond that very impassable place, in which fancies are the gadflies and mosquitoes, in which grief and joy are cold and heat, in which delusion is the blinding darkness, in which avarice is the beasts of prey and reptiles, in which desire and anger are the obstructors ....
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| Chapter XIII |
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The Brahmana said : I do not smell smells, I perceive no tastes, I see no colour, and I do not touch, nor yet do I hear various sounds, nor even do I entertain any fancies.
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| Chapter XIV |
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The Brahmana said : On this, too, they relate an old story, (in the shape of) a dialogue, O you of a pure heart! between Kartavirya and the ocean.
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| Chapter XV |
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The Pitris said : On this, too, they relate an ancient story; hearing that (story), O best of the twice-born! you should act accordingly. There was (once) a royal sage, named Alarka, whose penance was very great, who understood duty, who was veracious, high-souled, and very firm in his vows.
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| Chapter XVI |
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The Brahmana said: There are, verily, three foes in (this) world, and they are stated to be (divided) ninefold, according to qualities. Exultation, pleasure, joy, these three are qualities appertaining to the quality of goodness.
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| Chapter XVII |
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The Brahmana said : On this, too, they relate this ancient story (in the shape of) a dialogue, O you of a pure heart! between a Brahmana and Ganaka. King Ganaka, by way of punishment, said to a Brahmana who had fallen into some offence: 'You should not live within my dominions.
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| Chapter XVIII |
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The Brahmana said : O modest one! I do not move about in this world in the way which, according to your own understanding, you have guessed. I am a Brahmana, I am emancipated, I am a forester, and I likewise perform the duties of a householder, observing vows.
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| Chapter XIX |
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The Brahmana's wife said : This is not possible to be understood by one whose self is frivolous, or by one whose self is not refined; and my intelligence is very frivolous, and narrow, and confused.
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| Chapter XX |
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Arguna said : Be pleased to explain to me the Brahman which is the highest object of knowledge; for by your favour my mind is much interested in (these) subtle (subjects).
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| Chapter XXI |
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Brahman said : That unperceived (principle), all-pervading, everlasting, and immutable, which is in a state of equilibrium, should be understood (to become) the city of nine portals, consisting of three qualities, and five ....
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| Chapter XXII |
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Brahman said : O best (of men)! I will explain to you accurately the quality of passion. Learn, O noble ones! the action of the quality of passion.
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| Chapter XXIII |
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Brahman said : Now I shall proceed to describe the third--the best--quality, beneficial to all creatures, and unblamable, the duty of the good.
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| Chapter XXIV |
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Brahman said : The qualities cannot be explained altogether distinctly (from one another). Passion, goodness, and darkness likewise are seen mixed up (with one another).
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| Chapter XXV |
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Brahman said : From the unperceived was first produced the great self of great intelligence, the source of all qualities ; it is said to be the first creation.
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| Chapter XXVI |
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Brahman said : That Mahat which was first produced, is (afterwards) called egoism; when it is born as (the feeling itself) I, that is said to be the second creation.
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| Chapter XXVII |
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Brahman said : From egoism, verily, were the five great elements born--earth, air, space, water, and light as the fifth. In these five great elements, in the operations of (perceiving) sound, touch, colour, taste, and smell, creatures are deluded.
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| Chapter XXVIII |
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Brahman said : Among men the royal Kshatriya is the middle quality; among vehicles the elephant, and among denizens, of the forest the lion; among all sacrificial animals the sheep, and among the dwellers in holes the snake; among cattle also the bull, and among females a male.
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| Chapter XXIX |
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Brahman said : I will state truly all about that which has a beginning, middle, and end, and about the means for its comprehension, together with names and characteristics.
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| Chapter XXX |
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Brahman said : The wheel of life moves on; a wheel of which the spoke is the understanding, of which the pole is the mind, of which the bonds are the group of the senses, of which the outer rim is the five great elements, of which the environment is home ....
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| Chapter XXXI |
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Brahman said : Thus duly studying to the best of his power, in the way above stated, and likewise living as a Brahmakarin, one who is devoted to his own. duty and learned, who is a sage with all his senses restrained ....
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| Chapter XXXII |
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Brahman said : The ancients who perceived the established (truth) call renunciation penance; and the Brahmanas dwelling in the seat of the Brahman understand knowledge to be concerned with the Brahman.
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| Chapter XXXIII |
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Brahman said : Some (think of) the Brahman as a tree; some (think of) the Brahman as a great forest; and some (think of) the Brahman as unperceived; and some as transcendent and without misery; and they think all this to be produced from and absorbed into the unperceived.
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| Chapter XXXIV |
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The Sages said : Which (form of) piety is deemed to be the most worthy of being performed? We observe the various modes of piety to be as it were contradictory. Some say (it remains) after the body (is destroyed); some say that is not so.
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| Chapter XXXV |
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Brahman said : Well then, I will declare to you what you ask of me, O best (of men)! Learn what a preceptor told a pupil who went to him. Hearing it all, deliberate on it properly. Non-destruction of all creatures, that is deemed to be the greatest duty.
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| Chapter XXXVI |
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Brahman said : Since the mind is ruler of these five elements, in (the matter of) absorbing or bringing (them) forth, the mind itself is the individual self.
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