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forty two. "The spirits of their lifeless experience in ache when deprived of the ritual choices." This is about the pitṛyajña, , the choices of meals and h2o to the ancestors. As with the Greeks, the useless have been initially assumed to descend into the Underworld, in which they ended up depressing, especially without choices from their descendants. This is a vital challenge in all of Indian religion, in which the renunciation of the globe is the supreme worth in Jainism and Buddhism, and is deeply engrained in Hinduism. The issue that Arjuna asks at the beginning of Chapter 3, which asserts that Krishna has contradicted himself in Chapter 2, demonstrates no contradiction in Chapter 2, which was beautifully constant, but does sign the conflict concerning action and renunciation that will emerge in Krishna's solution to Arjuna. But it is opposed or limited by the doctrine of karmayoga, , in the Bhagavad Gīta, in which the conflict is obvious in the textual content.