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CHAPTER THREE CORRECTIONS

Text 5 MAC72

All men are forced to act helplessly according to the impulses born of the modes of material nature; therefore no one can refrain from doing something, not even for a moment.

Text 5 MAC72 âœ”

All men are forced to act helplessly according to the impulses born of the modes of material nature; therefore, no one can refrain from doing something, not even for a moment.

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Text 10 MAC72

In the beginning of creation, the Lord of all creatures sent forth generations of men and demigods, along with sacrifices for Viṣṇu, and blessed them by saying, "Be thou happy by this yajña [sacrifice] because its performance will bestow upon you all desirable things."

Text 10 MAC72 âœ”

In the beginning of creation, the Lord of all creatures sent forth generations of men and demigods, along with sacrifices for Viṣṇu, and blessed them by saying, "Be thou happy by this yajña (sacrifice) because its performance will bestow upon you all desirable things."

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Text 11 MAC72

The demigods, being pleased by sacrifices, will also please you; thus nourishing one another, there will reign general prosperity for all.

Text 11 MAC72 âœ”

The demigods, being pleased by sacrifices, will also please you. Thus nourishing one another, there will reign general prosperity for all.

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Text 15 MAC72

Regulated activities are prescribed in the Vedas, and the Vedas are directly manifested from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Consequently the all-pervading Transcendence is eternally situated in acts of sacrifice.

Text 15 MAC72 âœ”

Regulated activities are prescribed in the Vedas, and the Vedas are directly manifested from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Consequently, the all-pervading Transcendence is eternally situated in acts of sacrifice.

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Text 25 MAC72

As the ignorant perform their duties with attachment to results, similarly the learned may also act, but without attachment, for the sake of leading people on the right path.

Text 15 MAC72 âœ”

As the ignorant perform their duties with attachment to results, similarly, the learned may also act, but without attachment, for the sake of leading people on the right path.

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Text 28 MAC72

One who is in knowledge of the Absolute Truth, O mighty-armed, does not engage himself in the senses and sense gratification, knowing well the differences between work in devotion and work for fruitive results.

Text 28 MAC72 âœ”

One who is in knowledge of the Absolute Truth, O Mighty-armed, does not engage himself in the senses and sense gratification, knowing well the differences between work in devotion and work for fruitive results.

(Capitalize "Mighty-armed")

Text 37 MAC72

The Blessed Lord said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material modes of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring, sinful enemy of this world.

Text 37 MAC72 âœ”

The Blessed Lord said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material mode of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring, sinful enemy of this world.

Singular “mode” (In word-for-word it is rajo-guṇa—the mode of passion)

Text 40 MAC72

The senses, the mind and the intelligence are the sitting places of this lust, which veils the real knowledge of the living entity and bewilders him.

Text 40 MAC72 âœ”

The senses, the mind, and the intelligence are the sitting places of this lust, which veils the real knowledge of the living entity and bewilders him.

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Text 43 MAC72

Thus knowing oneself to be transcendental to material senses, mind and intelligence, one should control the lower self by the higher self and thus—by spiritual strength—conquer this insatiable enemy known as lust.

Text 43 MAC72 âœ”

Thus knowing oneself to be transcendental to material senses, mind, and intelligence, one should control the lower self by the higher self and thus—by spiritual strength—conquer this insatiable enemy known as lust.

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