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Chapter 18
While describing the discipline of knowledge, the Lord declares that all actions are performed by nature and its modes (guna) [1]. He also states that the seer perceives no agent, other than the modes [2], He in addition explained that the senses move among the sense-objects [3] etc. The same topic has been developed further, from the thirteenth to the eighteenth verses of the eighteenth chapter in brief, and in a different way.
The modes of nature have been described from the fifth to the eighteenth verse, of the fourteenth chapter, and from the twentieth to the fortieth verse, of the eighteenth chapter in detail, differently.
Meditation on God, described in detail in the sixth and the eighth chapters, has been described in brief and differently from the fifty-first to the fifty-third verses of the eighteenth chapter. Here [4] this topic can be regarded as the conclusion of twenty virtues of the discipline of knowledge, described from the seventh to the eleventh verse of the thirteenth chapter.
Sanjaya, has in brief concluded his recital, in the seventy-eighth verse of the eighteenth chapter, the divine glories of the Lord, from the eighth to the twelfth verse of the seventh chapter, the sixteenth to the nineteenth verse of the ninth chapter, the twentieth to the thirty-eighth verse of the tenth chapter and from the twelfth to the fifteenth verse of the fifteenth chapter.
The Lord's Cosmic-Form, described in the eleventh chapter has been concluded by Sanjaya in the form of a recollection, in the seventy-seventh verse of the eighteenth chapter.
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