Bhakti Yoga

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ARJUNA SAID:

 

1. Those devotees who, always devout, thus contemplate Thee and those also who

(contemplate) the Imperishable, the Unmanifest - which of them are better versed

in Yoga?

 

THE BLESSED LORD SAID:

 

2. Those who, fixing their thought on Me, contemplate Me, always devout, endued

with supreme faith, those in my opinion are the best Yogins.

 

3-4. Those who ever contemplate the Imperishable, the Indefinable, the

Unmanifest, the Omnipresent and the Unthinkable, the Unchangeable, the

Immutable, the Eternal - having restrained all the senses, always equanimous,

intent on the welfare of all beings - they reach Myself.

 

5. Greater is their trouble whose thoughts are set on the Unmanifest; for, the

Goal, the Unmanifest, is very hard for the embodied to reach.

 

6-7. But those who worship Me, renouncing all actions in Me, regarding Me

Supreme, meditating on Me with exclusive devotion (Yoga); for them whose thought

is fixed on Me, I become ere long, O son of Pritha, the deliverer out of the

ocean of the mortal samsara.

 

8. Fix thy mind in Me exclusively, apply thy reason to Me. Thou shalt no doubt

live in Me alone hereafter.

 

9. If thou art unable to fix thy thought steadily on Me, then by yoga of

constant practice do thou seek to reach Me, O Dhananjaya.

 

10. (If) thou art not equal to practise either, then be thou intent on (doing)

actions for My sake. Even doing actions for My sake, thou shalt attain

perfection.

 

to be continued...