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Just fix your mind upon Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and engage

all your intelligence in Me. Thus you will live in Me always without a

doubt.

 

My dear Arjuna, O winner of wealth, if you cannot fix your mind upon Me

without deviation, then follow the regulative principles of bhakti-yoga. In

this way develop a desire to attain Me.

 

If you cannot practice the regulations of bhakti-yoga, then just try to

work for Me, because by working for Me you will come to the perfect stage.

 

If, however, you are unable to work in this consciousness of Me, then try

to act giving up all results of your work and try to be self-situated.

 

If you cannot take to this practice, then engage yourself in the

cultivation of knowledge. Better than knowledge, however, is meditation, and

better than meditation is renunciation of the fruits of action, for by such

renunciation one can attain peace of mind.

 

One who is not envious but is a kind friend to all living entities, who

does not think himself a proprietor and is free from false ego, who is equal

in both happiness and distress, who is tolerant, always satisfied,

selfcontrolled, and engaged in devotional service with determination, his

mind and intelligence fixed on Me- such a devotee of Mine is very dear to

Me.

 

He for whom no one is put into difficulty and who is not disturbed by

anyone, who is equipoised in happiness and distress, fear and anxiety, is

very dear to Me.

 

My devotee who is not dependent on the ordinary course of activities, who

is pure, expert, without cares, free from all pains, and not striving for

some result, is very dear to Me.

 

One who neither rejoices nor grieves, who neither laments nor desires, and

who renounces both auspicious and inauspicious things- such a devotee is

very dear to Me.

 

One who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equiposed in honor and

dishonor, heat and cold, happiness and distress, fame and infamy, who is

always free from contaminating association, always silent and satisfied with

anything, who doesn't care for any residence, who is fixed in knowledge and

who is engaged in devotional service-such a person is very dear to Me.

 

Those who follow this imperishable path of devotional service and who

completely engage themselves with faith, making Me the supreme goal, are

very, very dear to Me.