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CHAPTER XVI.
[The Purusottama-Yoga is the climax of the Knowledge of the Mutable and the Immutable; and really speaking, the exposition of Jñāna and Vijñāna, which was started in Chapter VII, for showing how a man can attain Release by Realising the Parameśvara, while he is following the Path of Karma-Yoga, should have been finished here, and the summary started. But in Chapter IX (9. 12), the Blessed Lord has merely briefly stated that the ungodly person does not realise His imperceptible and excellent form; and He, therefore, now commences this chapter for describing the character of such an ungodly person; and after explaining in the next chapter why such differences arise between men and men, the entire Gītā has been summarised in Chapter XVIII.]
The Blessed Lord said :-(1) Fearlessness, a pure and sättvika temperament, 'jñāna-yoga-vyavasthiti' (that is, the well-calculated proportionment of jñāna (-mārga) and (Karma-) Yoga], generosity, endurance, sacrifice, svādhyāya' (that is, following the religion prescribed for one's status-inlife), performing austerities, straight-forwardness, (2) harmlessness, veracity, not getting angry, tyāga' (that is, Renunciation of the Fruit of Action), tranquility,' apaišūnya', (that is, overgrowing one's narrow-mindedness, and acquiring a generous frame of mind), kindness towards all beings, absence of avarice, mildness, feeling ashamed (of evil action), 'acapala' (that is, giviog up useless activity),
