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Chapter 6 - Practice of Restraint

This chapter of 47slokas, known asaata,Self Restraint, deals with all aspects of self-control needed for renunciation in action Here Arjuna’s queries as to ould be the fate of man, were he to fail midway, in his efforts at self- control (s37) Even if it were the case, assures the Lord, still one wouldn't co born many times over, eventually he attainsmoksha(s45) Further in s46, the Lord asserts that such a man is superior to the ritualistic character, and concludes in s47 that he reround, s 41 and s42 are clearly interpolations not only for affecting the continuity of the text but also for what they contain S41 would have it that those who perform theasvamedha(ritualistic horse sacrifice) would reach heaven to be born again rich Likewise s 42 would have us that, or such would be born in learned horessions, but in effect they carry forward the Lord’s discourse from s32, at which point Arjuna interrupted Him with his queries

S10-s17 deal with aspects of ascetic practice and do see by what is stated in the very opening verse, besides breaking the continuity in the proposition

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Thus spoke the Lord:

Forego none if forsake chores

Eye not gain ’n thou be freed

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If thou let go its godly

Makes that hard thy self-interest

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Uphill though the way forsake

As ’n when thou make it there

Stay thus put with nosenses sans hty it’s thy make

Self thus thine but shapes thyself

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Mind if reined, it’s thy friend

Foe it turns, let when loose

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Overcome if vicissitudes

Vibe thee ith Me Supreme

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Valuable or be otherwise

Treat all alike self-realized

Thus they remain ever even