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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 is Krishna's motivation for destroying the darkness of ignorance?

2. Among mountains what is Krishna?

3. What is the quality of the path to the Unrevealed according to Krishna?

4. What does Arjuna tell Krishna he longs for at the beginning of this chapter?

5. Who does Krishna tell Arjuna is the most established in yoga?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Krishna say are the most established in yoga?

2. What happens to souls who die in each of these states?

3. What are the limits to Krishna's divine power?

4. What does Sanjaya say that Krishna showed Arjuna?

5. What exists without Krishna?

6. Describe those with demonic tendencies.

7. What does Krishna say are the two orders of being in the world? Is there anything beyond?

8. What does Krishna tell Arjuna about the path to the Unrevealed?

9. What kind of knowledge belongs to each of the gunas?

10. What are Krishna's instructions for Arjuna if he finds he cannot still his mind?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Krishna tells Arjuna that the will is the Self's only friend as well as the Self's only enemy. What does this mean? For whom is the Self a friend? For whom is the Self an enemy? What does Krishna say an aspirant should do with respect to her will? Use specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

Krishna's teachings consistently return to several major things that bind souls to death and rebirth.

Part 1) Identify three such things and explain them clearly citing specific examples from the Gita.

Part 2) Outline in detail the means Krishna offers for transcending these, and breaking the cycle of death and rebirth.

Part 3) Attempt to unify these themes, using either your own words or Krishna's, into a single instruction for attaining what Krishna calls "the supreme goal."

Cite specific examples from the text for all of the above.

Essay Topic 3

Krishna says that "the wise see that there is action in the midst of inaction and inaction in the midst of action." What is the meaning of this cryptic statement? Discuss its significance in the Bhagavad Gita citing specific examples.

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