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The sense of right and wrong is not innate but it is acquired
from the scriptures, and the same scriptures undermine all ideas of
difference. All this is confounding to me.
Shri Krishna replied:
I have spoken of three paths leading to the attainment of
Moksha by men Jnana, Karma and Bhakti Yogas. There is no
other means what so ever of attaining Moksha. Jnana Yoga is for
those that are disgusted with the performance of Karma and so give
it up.
Karma Yoga is for those that are not disgusted with the per-
formance of Karma but are attached to it.
He who perchance becomes fond of what is said or spoken of
Me, but has no aversion for Karma nor has any undue attachment to
it is fit for Bhakti Yoga.
Perform Karma so long as you do not feel disgust for it or
as long as you are not drawn by love for me. True to your duties,
perform Yajnas but without any selfish desires. Do not perform
prohibited Karma. Then you shall cross the limits of both Svarga
and Naraka.
By the performance of one's own duties, the purified man may
acquire pure wisdom (Jnana) and Bhakti.
The dwellers of Svarga wish for the human bcdy and so the
dwellers of Naraka. For that body is a means to the attainment of
of JnSna and Bhakti both, not so the Svarga body or Naraka body.
The far sighted man does not wish for Svarga or Naraka.
He does not even wish for human existence. For connection with
the body causes selfish distractions.
The sage knows the body as leading to desired for ends. But
he realises at the same time its transitory character. He therefore
loses no time in striving for Moksha before the approach of death.
Even so the bird loses all attachment for its nest and flies away free
and happy before the man who strikes at the tree succeeds in felling
it.
The human body which is the primal source of all attainments
is a well built boat, so hard to secure and so cheap when once attained.
The Guru is at the helm of this boat, and I am the favorable wind
that drives it. The man that does not cross the ocean of births with
such a boat is a killer of self.
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