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Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita - by Dmitri Brereton

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“Pleasures conceived in the world of senses have a beginning and end, and give birth to misery. The wise do not look for happiness there, but find their joy completely within themselves." - Krishna The Bhagavad Gita is one of the oldest manuals on how to live a good life.

“Pleasures conceived in the world of senses have a beginning and end, and give birth to misery. The wise do not look for happiness there, but find their joy completely within themselves." - Krishna The Bhagavad Gita is one of the oldest manuals on how to live a good life. It is the most popular Hindu text, and is perhaps most famous in the West because Oppenheimer quoted it as he saw the first nuclear bomb explode. “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” However, the book is not about death, but about life. It contains some of the oldest thinking on what it means to live well.…

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