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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Krishna say is his action?

2. What is the dwelling place of those who have destroyed their family dharma?

3. According to Krishna what happens to us when our body is worn out?

4. According to Krishna, what binds a person to continual rebirth?

5. Where does the supreme Reality stand revealed according to Krishna?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Krishna say about the relationship between his unmanifested form and the existence of the manifested universe?

2. What are some of the metaphors Krishna gives for his nature in this chapter?

3. Of those who seek the spiritual life, who are the most blessed according to Krishna?

4. What is Krishna's response to Arjuna's complaint that the mind is restless and difficult to control?

5. What does Krishna say truly great souls seek? How?

6. Krishna tells Arjuna that he declared to paths for the pure of heart at the beginning of time. What are these paths?

7. How does Krishna say a sinner may become holy?

8. What happens when dharma declines according to Krishna?

9. What does Krishna say about those who abstain from action to enjoy sensual pleasures?

10. How does Krishna say ignorance is destroyed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are sense objects? Why are they important to Krishna's teaching? What is the relationship of the ignorant to sense objects? What is the relationship of the wise to the same? Discuss citing specific examples.

Essay Topic 2

Toward the end of the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna shifts his attention to those souls with "demonic tendencies."

1) Describe the attitudes of souls of this nature. How are they different from the attitudes Krishna has previously promoted?

2) Discuss what Krishna teaches concerning the destiny of souls of demonic nature.

3) What are the "three gates" to self-destruction? How may these be avoided?

Use specific examples for all the above.

Essay Topic 3

Krishna tells Arjuna, "They live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart." This is a major recurring theme in the Gita. Explain and elaborate this statement of Krishna's using at least three of his own examples.

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