W. Douglas P. Hill: Working

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“If, O Janārdana, discernment be held by thee more excellent than work, then why, O Keśava, dost thou set me to do a work of violence?”

W. Douglas P. Hill

Source: The Bhagavadgītā (1973), p. 95. (1.)

“God descends with a purpose. From the earliest times sacrifice (yajña) had been accounted the most important work, and in the Gītā so imperative a work is sacrifice considered that we are told that 'ever on sacrifice firm-founded is Brahman all pervading.”

W. Douglas P. Hill

Source: The Bhagavadgītā (1973), p. 34. (19.(c) Kṛiṣṇa as avatāra has a definite work to do)

“There seems to be a general consensus of opinion among modern scholars that the Bhagavadgītā, as it now appears in the Epic, is not an original poem composed by a single hand, but an ancient work, rewritten and enlarged. But all are not agreed as to the history of the poem's composition.”

W. Douglas P. Hill

Source: The Bhagavadgītā (1973), p. 18. (12. The composition of the Bhagavadgītā)

“The order of the four castes was created by me, with due distribution of Strands and works; I did that work indeed; yet know me as no worker and immutable.”

W. Douglas P. Hill

Source: The Bhagavadgītā (1973), p. 104. (13.)

“For the saint who seeks to scale the heights of control work is said to be the means; when that same man has scaled the heights of control, quietude is said to be the means.”

W. Douglas P. Hill

Source: The Bhagavadgītā (1973), p. 117. (3.)

“For better is knowledge than constant practice; and than knowledge meditation is more excellent; than meditation, abandonment of the fruit of work; after abandonment, peace ensues.”

W. Douglas P. Hill

Source: The Bhagavadgītā (1973), p. 169–70. (12.)