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Bhagavad Gita - Hoofdstuk 18

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Het finale hoofdstuk (1) van "Bhagavad Gita As It" Is is een zware pil om te vatten. ...dus jij blijft zoeken naar een mooie tabel, of mind-map, (2) met de STRUCTUUR van dit hoofdstuk. Tot zolang pruts je maar verder met jouw nota's uit "Surrender Unto Me: An Overview of the Bhagavad-Gita" van Bhurijana Dasa Arjuna's question What's the difference between  "tyAga": renunciation of the FRUITS of one's activities sannyAsa (renounced order of life, renunciation of materially motivated activities) ...and HOW to perform it? either: niSkAma-karma-yoga: work while remaining detached from the fruit of work or: directly renounce all activities (in order to start performing jnAna-yoga) Krsna's answer Full renunciation (i.e. without doing any work / performing any action) is impossible. (BG 18  TEXT 5  &  TEXT 11 ). So it's imperative to understand better what is ACTION ! 5 CAUSES for (the accomplishment of all) action: adhistAnam : place

John Galt’s Speech (from Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”)

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ADVANCE REMARK Geen zin om de 70 pagina's van John Galt's speech (0) te LEZEN (1) ?  Geen nood ; je kan die evengoed BELUISTEREN (2). -- SPEECH  For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are perishing—you who dread knowledge—I am the man who will now tell you.” The chief engineer was the only one able to move; he ran to a television set and struggled frantically with its dials. But the screen remained empty; the speaker had not chosen to be seen. Only his voice filled the airways of the country—of the world, thought the chief engineer—sounding as if he were speaking here, in this room, not to a group, but to one man; it was not the tone of addressing a meeting, but the tone of addressing a mind.     “You have heard it said that this