One who sits outwardly restraining the organs of action while inwardly dwelling on sense-objects — that deluded person is called a hypocrite.
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The Bhagavad Gita, translated and commentated by S. Radhakrishnan, is one of the most scholarly and accessible English renderings of Hinduism's most beloved scripture — the dialogue between Arjuna and Lord Krishna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Radhakrishnan, philosopher and statesman, brings both rigorous intellectual insight and genuine spiritual depth to his translation and notes. This edition is treasured for its ability to illuminate the Gita's universal spiritual teaching across cultural and philosophical boundaries.
- Author
- Krishna
- Tradition
- Hindu
- Source text
- Bhagavad Gita
- Chapter
- Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 3
- Verse / page
- BG.3.6
- Topics
- HypocrisySelf-ControlAction
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What we require is only to incorporate God in our lives - not merely to make a mention of God. If religious people are found to have any dispute or clash, their reason too is the ignorance about God. Once they come to know God, these disputes will end automatically.
Accordingly, it behoves you not to seem to be anything except what you really are. It is inward glow that makes the Sufi, not the religious habit.
However, rejoicing solely for this reason is vanity and deception, as Solomon says: 'Graciousness is deceitful and beauty is vain; the woman who fears God will be praised.'