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The Gita
• There are ignorant people who speak flowery words and take delight in the letter of the law, saying there is nothing else. Their hearts are full of selfish desires, Arjuna. Their idea of heaven is their own enjoyment, and the aim of all their activities is pleasure and power. The fruit of their actions is continual rebirth. Those whose minds are swept away by the pursuit of pleasure and power are incapable of following the supreme goal and will not attain samadhi.
-Bhagavad Gita 2:42-44
• Those who abstain while allowing the mind to dwell on sensual pleasure cannot be called sincere spiritual aspirants. But they excel who control their senses through the mind, using them for selfless service.
-Bhagavad Gita 3:6-7
• Knowledge is hidden by selfish desire--hidden by this unquenchable fire for self-satisfaction.
-Bhagavad Gita 3:38-39
• True sustenance is in service and through it a man or woman reaches the eternal Brahman. But those who do not seek to serve are without a home in this world.
-Bhagavad Gita 4:31
• Those who know this truth, whose consciousness is unified, think always, "I am not the doer." While seeing or hearing, touching or smelling; eating, moving about, or sleeping; breathing or speaking, letting go or holding on, even opening
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