Willy Pogany... illustrations from The Song Celestial 1934

from The Song Celestial (Bhagavad Gita) by Sir Edwin Arnold 

illustrated by Willy Pogany

Dwelling outside the stress

Of passion, fear, and anger; fixed in calms

Of lofty contemplation;

 The Doors of Hell

Are threefold, whereby men to ruin pass, --

The door of Lust, the door of Wrath, the door 

Of Averice.

" The elements, the conscious life, the mind,
The unseen vital force, the nine strange gates
Of the body, and the five domains of sense;
Desire, dislike, pleasure and pain, and thought
Deep-woven, and persistency of being;
These all are wrought on Matter by the Soul! "

 Chapter 13

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