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The passage teaches one thing from two ends. The mind needs one resolve, and the resolve takes root only when the mind rests in the Self (2.41, 2.53).
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Buddhi Yoga: The Resolute Intellect
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The Gita gives several ways to one goal, and counts them differently by inclination, by practice and by the object of the heart (3.3, 13.25, 12.2).
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The Paths: Action, Knowledge, Devotion
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The twenty verses give different reasons for not grieving, for different listeners, and they agree in outcome. One is the lasting self (2.16–25), one is the unavoidable cycle (2.26–28), and one is the self in every being (2.29–30).
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The Imperishable Self
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The Gita presents itself as one dialogue inside a frame: Dhritarashtra asks what happened, and Sanjaya tells it from start to finish.
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The Eighteen Chapters at a Glance
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Chapter 12 does not defeat any path: it says which road is easier for a person in a body, gives four steps by capacity, and makes conduct the proof of devotion (12.1-20).
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Chapter 12: The Yoga of Devotion, an Overview
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The Lord calls all four kinds of devotee good and noble; every one is welcome, and the difference lies in nearness (7.16, 7.18).
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Four Kinds of Devotees
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The Lord steadies the faith of anyone who worships a deity, and says that what the worshipper receives is his own arrangement (7.21, 7.22).
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What We Worship, We Become
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The Gita contains statements pointing both to distinction and to unity, so it resists a single philosophical label.
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