“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.)

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