BHAGAVAD GITA FOR BUSY PEOPLE

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Priya Bhagavat Banduvullara!

 

BHAGAVAD GITA FOR BUSY PEOPLE

 

CHAPTER: TWELVE

 

THE YOGA OF DEVOTION

 

BHAKTI YOGA

 

Arjuna said: " Those devotees, who ever steadfast, thus worship Thee,

and those also who worship the Imperishable, the Unmanifested—which

of these better-versed in Yoga? (1)

 

The Blessed Lord said, " Those who, fixing their mind on Me, worship

me, ever-steadfast and endowed with supreme faith, in My opinion are

the best in Yoga. Greater is their trouble whose minds are set on

the Unmanifested; for the goal, the Unmanifested, is very hard for

the embodied to reach (5). Fix thy mind on Me only, place Thy

intellect in Me, then thou shalt no doubt live in Me alone hereafter

(8). If thou are not able to fix thy mind steadily on Me, the by

Yoga of constant practice (Abhyasa Yoga) do thou seek to reach Me, O

Dhananjaya (9). If thou art unable to practise even this Abhyasa

Yoga, be thou intention-doing actions for My sake; even by doing

actions for My sake, thou shalt attain perfection. (10). If thou

art unable to do even this then taking refuge in union with Me,

renounce the fruits of all actions, with the self controlled (11).

Better indeed is knowledge than practice; than knowledge meditation

is better; than meditation renunciation of the fruits of actions;

peace immediately follows renunciation. (12).

 

" He who hates no creature, who is friendly and compassionate to all,

who is free from attachment and egoism, balanced in pleasure and

pain, and forgiving, ever content, steady in mediation, self-

controlled, possessed of firm conviction, with mind and intellect

dedicated to Me, he My devotee, is dear to Me (13-14). He who is

free from envy, fear and anxiety, who is free from wants, pure,

expert, unconcerned, untroubled, who has renounced all undertakings

or commencements, who neither rejoices nor hates, neither grieves

nor desires, who has renounced good and evil, who is full devotion,

he is dear to Me (16-17).

 

" He who is the same to as foe and friend, and also in honour and

dishonour, who is the same in cold and heat, and in pleasure and

pain, who is free from attachment, who is balanced in censure and

praise, pain and pleasure, who is silent, content with anything

homeless, steady-minded, full of devotion—that man is dear to Me (18-

19).

 

" The verily, who follow this Immortal Dharma (law or doctrine) as

described above endowed with faith, regarding Me as their supreme

goal, devotees, they are exceedingly dear to Me (20).