Chapter
12 - The Yoga of Devotion
Arjun
said:
Those
devotees who, ever steadfast, thus worship
Thee in (God with attributes) and those
again who worship the Imperishable and the
Unmanifested, which of them are better
versed in yoga? (12.01)
The
Blessed Sri Krsn said:
Those
who, fixing their mind on Me, worship Me
ever steadfast and endowed with supreme
faith, are the most perfect in yoga in my
opinion. (12.02)
But
those who worship the imperishable, the
undefinable, the unmanifest, the
unchanging, and the immobile, the
constant, by restraining all the senses,
being even minded everywhere, engrossed in
the welfare of all beings, also come to
Me. (12.03 -04)
The
difficulty of those whose thoughts are set
on the Unmanifested is greater, for the
goal of the Unmanifested is hard to reach
by the embodied beings. (12.05)
But
those who worship Me, renouncing all
actions to Me, regarding Me as the supreme
goal, meditating on Me, with single minded
devotion. (12.06)
To
those whose mind is set on Me, I
straight-way deliver from the ocean of
death-bound existence, O Arjun. (12.07)
Fix
thy mind on Me alone, fix thy intellect in
Me alone; thereafter thou shalt live in Me
alone. There is no doubt about it. (12.08)
If
you are unable to fix your mind steadily
on Me, then seek to reach Me by the
constant practice of concentration, O
winner of wealth, Arjun. (12.09)
If
you are unable to practice concentration,
you be intent on performing actions for
Me; even by performing actions for My
sake, you shall attain perfection. (12.10)
If
you are unable to do even this then
subduing your mind, senses and intellect
etc., resorting to union with Me, renounce
the fruits of all actions. (12.11)
Better
indeed is knowledge than the practice (of
concentration); better than knowledge is
meditation, better than meditation is the
renunciation of the fruits of action;
peace immediately follows renunciation.
(12.12)
He
who has no ill will to any being, who is
friendly and compassionate to all, who is
free from attachment and egoism, even
minded in pleasure and pain, forgiving,
ever content, self controlled, unshakable
in determination, with mind and intellect
dedicated to Me - the yogi, My devotee, is
dear to Me. (12.13)
He
by whom the world is not agitated and who
is not agitated by the world and who is
free from joy, anger (envy), fear and
agitation, he is dear to Me. (12.14)
The
one by whom others are not agitated, and
who is not agitated by others; who is free
from joy, envy, fear, and anxiety; is also
dear to Me. (12.15)
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 undertakings -
that devotee of Mine is dear to Me.
(12.16)
He
who neither rejoices nor hates, nor
grieves, nor desires, and who renounces
both good and evil actions is full of
devotion, is dear to Me. (12.17)
He
who is alike to friend and foe, as well as
to honor and ignominy, who remains
balanced in heat and cold, pleasure and
pain and other contrary experiences, and
is free from attachment. 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 to his dwelling-place and full of
devotion to Me, that man is dear to Me.
(12.18 - 19)
Those
devotees, however, who partake in a
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. (12.20)
Thus
with the utterance of Om, Tat, Sat, the
names of the Lord, in the Upanisad of the
Bhagawad Gita, the knowledge of Brahman
science of yoga , the supreme, the and the
dialogue between Sri Krsn and Arjun, this
is the twelfth discourse designated:
"The Yoga of Devotion"
Swami Veet Chintan T'Zorba-Krsna
Jyotish
Shastracharya
& Vedic Astrologer of India
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