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(I made a signal of assent and trust to Uncle Kurt due to no one as me knew how many
arbitrariness are committed around the authentic psychic virtues of man, those that are
developed «alone» or auto-developd and exalts him without affecting in nothing his rational
equilibrium because they are integred «naturally» to the personality. Psychic virtues that are
obtained spontaneously, without resorting to absurd «occult methods» or «gymns of
transcendental meditation» that end to break the delicated mental order and guides the
disciple to the madness and death).

–I remember a day –continued Uncle Kurt– in which I was reading the Bhagavad-
Ghita, Vedic writing part of the great epos Mahabarata, mystic war that involved on its
struggle men, Angels and Gods and whose memory the ancient Wise men of the India wrote
and collected.

The Ghita treats about the battle that must fight the hero Arjuna to recover the throne,
usurped by his cousin. Arjuna is a member of the warrior caste Kshatriya and with him is Sri
Krishna, incarnation of the God Vishnu.

In the first part called «The regret of Arjuna», Arjuna moves with his chariot before the
enemy army realizing that beside his cousin great part of his relatives and friends have been
aligned:

26. Then Arjuna beheld there stationed, grandfathers and fathers, teachers, maternal
uncles, brothers, sons, grandsons and friends, too.

27. (He saw) fathers-in-law and friends also in both armies. The son of Kunti—Arjuna—
seeing all these kinsmen standing arrayed, spoke thus sorrowfully, filled with deep pity.

28. - 30. Seeing these, my kinsmen, O Krishna, arrayed, eager to fight, my limbs fail and
my mouth is parched up, my body quivers and my hairs stand on end! The (bow) «Gandiva»
slips from my hand and my skin burns all over; I am unable even to stand, my mind is reeling,
as it were.

31. – 34. And I see adverse omens, O Kesava! I do not see any good in killing my
kinsmen in battle. For I desire neither victory, O Krishna, nor pleasures nor kingdoms! Of what
avail is a dominion to us, O Krishna, or pleasures or even life? Those for whose sake we desire
kingdoms, enjoyments and pleasures, stand here in battle, having renounced life and wealth.
Teachers, fathers, sons and also grandfathers, grandsons, fathers-in-law, maternal uncles,
brothers-in-law and relatives.

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