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You can elevate yourself by yourself
only.
Gita has laid special emphasis on
learning, action, and worship. One should
strive attaining God with the help of noble
actions performed knowledgeably. Such a
course of actions helps a man to become a
great man, an ordinary person to be an
extraordinary one, and an outlaw convert into
a saint, and a sinner transform into a holy
man. The irony with the man in the present
age is that he wants to achieve result without
striving for it. Commits wrong, yet wants to be
saved from the consequence. Desires peace,
yet acts in a way as to cause unrest. Wants
happiness, yet indulges in acts of
unhappiness. Wants to be and remain free of
ailments, yet his living and food habits are
hardly compatible. Talks about union with God
by going to the temple, listening to religious
discourse and being in the righteous company,