Vijnana Yoga

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11. And of the energetic am I the energy devoid of passion and attachment; and

in (all) beings I am the desire unopposed to Dharma, O lord of the Bharatas.

 

12. And whatever beings are of Sattva or of Rajas or of Tamas, know them to

proceed from Me; still, I am not in them, they are in me.

 

13. Deluded by these three (sorts of) things composed of gunas, all this world

knows not Me as distinct from them and immutable.

 

14. Verily this Divine Illusion of Mine, made up of gunas, is hard to surmount.

Whoever seek Me alone, they cross over this Illusion.

 

15. Not Me do the evil-doers seek, the deluded, the vilest of men, deprived of

wisdom by Illusion, following the ways of the Demons.

 

16. Four kinds of virtuous men worship Me, O Arjuna - the distressed, the seeker

of knowledge, the seeker of wealth and the wise man, O lord of the Bharatas.

 

17. Of them the wise man, ever steadfast and devoted to the One, excels; for,

excessively dear am I to the wise and he is dear to Me.

 

18. Noble indeed are all these; but the wise man, I deem, is the very Self; for,

steadfast in mind, he resorts to Me alone as the unsurpassed goal.

 

19. At the end of many births, the man of wisdom comes to me, (realising) that

Vasudeva is the all: he is the noble-souled (Mahatman), very hard to find.

 

20. Those whose wisdom has been led away by this or that desire resort to other

Gods, engaged in this or that rite, constrained by their own nature.

 

to be continued...