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he sees, indeed, who sees that works Are Nature's wont, for Soul to
practise by Acting, yet not the agent; sees the mass Of separate
living things- each of its kind- Issue from One, and blend again to
One: Then hath he BRAHMA, he attains!
O Prince! That Ultimate, High Spirit,
Uncreate, Unqualified, even when it entereth flesh
Taketh no stain of acts, worked
in nought! Like to th' ethereal
air, pervading all, Which, for sheer subtlety, avoided
taint, The
subtle Soul sits everywhere, unstained: Like to the light of the
all-piercing sun [Which is not changed by aught it shines
upon,] The Soul's light Shineth
pure in every place; And they
who, by such eye of wisdom, see How Matter, and what deals with it,
divide; And how the Spirit and the flesh have strife, Those wise
ones go the way which leads to Life!
HERE ENDETH CHAPTER XIII OF THE
BHAGAVAD-GITA, Entitled "Kshetrakshetrajnavibhagayog,"
Or "The Book of Religion by Separation of Matter and
Spirit."
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