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More excellent than the austere, more excellent even than men of knowledge is the Ascetic deemed; more excellent than workers is the Ascetic; therefore be thou Ascetic, Arjuna.

— W. Douglas P. Hill The Bhagavadgītā (1973)

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The Bhagavadgītā: Reading the Seventh

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But for those in whom that ignorance of Self is by knowledge destroyed, their knowledge like the sun illumines That Supreme.

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Guarded by Bhīṣma, this our force is all too weak; and all too strong that force of theirs, by Bhīma guarded.

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