Bhagavad Gita -Chapter 5

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Chapter 5: Karma-yoga — Action in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness
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Question 1

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Who remains unaffected by sinful action, as the lotus leaf is untouched by water?
Answer
  • One who performs his duty without attachment
  • One who performs his duty without attachment, surrendering the results unto the Supreme Lord
  • One who is always performing good work(where good is according to his own definition)
  • One who does not harm anybody and does his own work

Question 2

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In the city of nine gates [the material body], who creates activities inducing one to act and create the fruits of action?
Answer
  • The embodied spirit
  • The modes of material nature
  • The mind
  • The intelligence

Question 3

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What bewilders the embodied being covering his real knowledge?
Answer
  • The Supreme Lord
  • Ignorance
  • Material nature
  • Senses

Question 4

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Who is termed as a "PANDIT" by Lord Krishna?
Answer
  • One who can perform various religious sacrifices nicely
  • One who can chant the Vedic mantras properly
  • One who has taken his birth in a upper class family by virtue of his past pious deeds
  • One who sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater by virtue of true knowledge

Question 5

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A liberated person is not attracted to material sense pleasure but is always in trance, enjoying the pleasure within. How is that pleasure relished?
Answer
  • By concentrating on the Supreme Lord continously
  • By meditating on sensual activities within the mind
  • By concentrating on something material (like a light or a bulb)
  • By forcefully controlling the external sensual activities

Question 6

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The result of ASHTANG YOGA described by Lord Krishna(BG 5.27-28) for liberation can be achieved by practicing it
Answer
  • For half an hour a day
  • Once in a week
  • Till one becomes tired
  • By always remaining in that state

Question 7

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According to the Lord one who is always busy working for the welfare of all living beings achieve liberation in the Supreme.What is that welfare work?
Answer
  • By simply providing them their daily bread and other bodily necessities
  • By simply providing them comfortable shelter
  • By curing their bodily diseases free of charge
  • By giving them the knowledge that Krishṇa is the fountainhead of everything and acting in that same spirit

Question 8

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What is the only purpose of YOGA?
Answer
  • Purification of senses, mind and intelligence
  • To perform better sensual activities
  • To create a world full of healthy people
  • To reduce global warming

Question 9

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How can one become dear to everyone, and everyone dear to him?
Answer
  • By working in devotion and controling his mind and sense
  • By political power
  • By unlimited charity to the poor
  • By bodily beauty

Question 10

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As the sun lights up everything in the daytime, what enlightens the living entity?
Answer
  • Wealth; so that we can travel world over and beyond
  • knowledge; by which nescience is destroyed
  • Unlimited sense gratification
  • Power; so that everybody can be controlled
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