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" Bhagavad-Gītā -- Arjuna sees Arjuna in combat and knows that he is and is not Arjuna; the true Arjuna is neither the combatant nor he who is watching the combat, but another, who has no name and who only is. In that same instant, the future vanishes and time dissolves: Arjuna becomes free of Arjuna. Who performs the act, and when? Everything happens in an eternal now, without antecedents or consequences, with no yesterday or tomorrow. Action without action is identical to liberation. The act executed by Arjuna: is it an act, or has it also vanished, along with the hero and his victims? "

Octavio Paz , In Light of India


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Octavio Paz quote : Bhagavad-Gītā -- Arjuna sees Arjuna in combat and knows that he is and is not Arjuna; the true Arjuna is neither the combatant nor he who is watching the combat, but another, who has no name and who only is. In that same instant, the future vanishes and time dissolves: Arjuna becomes free of Arjuna. Who performs the act, and when? Everything happens in an eternal now, without antecedents or consequences, with no yesterday or tomorrow. Action without action is identical to liberation. The act executed by Arjuna: is it an act, or has it also vanished, along with the hero and his victims?