1/XII. Arjuna said, “The devotees who, with their minds constantly fixed on You as shown above, adore You as possessed of form and attributes, and those who adore as the supreme Reality only the indestructible unmanifest Brahma ( who is Truth, Knowledge and Bliss solidified ) of these two types of worshippers who are the best knowers of Yoga?”
2/XII. Sri Bhagavan said, “I consider them to be the best Yogis, who endowed with supreme faith, and ever united through meditation with Me, worship Me with the mind centred on Me.”
3,4/XII. “Those, however, who fully controlling all their senses and even-minded towards all, and devoted to the welfare of all beings instantly adore as their very self the unthinkable; omnipresent, indestructible indefinable, eternal, immovable, unmanifest and changeless Brahma, they too come to Me.”
5/XII. “Of course, the strain is greater for those who have their mind attached to the Unmanifest; for atonement with the Unmanifest is attained with difficulty by those who are centred in the body.”
6/XII. “On the other hand, those who depending exclusively on Me, and surrendering all actions to Me, worship Me ( God with attributes ), constantly meditating on Me with single-minded devotion.”
7/XII. “These, Arjuna, I speedily deliver from the ocean of birth and death, their mind being fixed on Me.”
8/XII. “Therefore, fix your mind on Me, and establish your intellect in Me alone; thereafter you will abide solely in Me. There is no doubt about it.”
9/XII. “If you cannot steadily fix the mind on Me, Arjuna, then seek to attain Me through the Yoga of repeated practice.”
10/XII. “If you are unequal even to the pursuit of such practice, be intent to work for Me; you shall attain perfection (in the shape of My realisation) even by performing actions for My sake.”
11/XII. “If taking recourse to the Yoga of My realisation, you are unable even to do this, then, subduing your mind and intellect etc., relinquish the fruit of all actions.”
12/XII. “Knowledge is better than practice ( without discernment), meditation on God is superior to knowledge, and renunciation of the fruit of actions is even superior to meditation; for peace immediately follows from renunciation.”
13,14/XII. “He who is free from matter towards all beings, friendly and compassionate, rid of ‘I’ and ‘mine’, balanced in joy and sorrow, forgiving by nature, ever-contented and mentally united with Me, nay, who has subdued his mind, senses and body, has a firm resolve, and has surrendered his mind and reason to Me, that devotee of Mine is dear to Me.”
15/XII. “He who is not a source of annoyance to his fellow-creatures, and who in his turn does not feel vexed with fellow-creatures, and who is free from delight and envy perturbation and fear, is dear to Me.”
16/XII. “He who wants nothing, who is both internally and externally pure, is clever and impartial, and has risen above all distractions, and who renounces the feeling of doership in all undertaking, - that devotee of Mine is dear.”
17/XII. “He who neither rejoices nor hates, nor grieves, nor desires and who renounces both good and evil actions and is full of devotion, is dear to Me.”
18/XII. “He who is alike to friend and foe, as well as to honour and ignominy, who remains balanced in heat and cold, pleasure and pain and other contrary experiences, and is free from attachment.”
19/XII. “He who takes praise and reproach alike, and is given to contemplation and contented with any means of subsistence whatsoever, entertaining no sense of ownership and attachment in respect of his dwelling place and full of devotion to Me, that man is dear to Me.”
20/XII. “Those devotees, however, who partake in disinterested way of this nectar of pious wisdom set forth above, endowed with faith and solely devoted to Me, they are extremely dear to Me.”
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-- OM THATH SATH --
