Chapter 12, Verse 1.
Arjuna
inquired: Which is considered to be more perfect, those who are
properly engaged in Your devotional service, or those who worship the
impersonal Brahman, the unmanifested?
Chapter 12, Verse 2.
The
Blessed Lord said: He whose mind is fixed on My personal form, always
engaged in worshiping Me with great and transcendental faith, is
considered by Me to be most perfect.
Chapter 12, Verse 3-4.
But
those who fully worship the unmanifested, that which lies beyond the
perception of the senses, the all-pervading, inconceivable, fixed and
immovable--the impersonal conception of the Absolute Truth--by
controlling the various senses and being equally disposed to everyone,
such persons, engaged in the welfare of all, at last achieve Me.
Chapter 12, Verse 5.
For
those whose minds are attached to the unmanifested, impersonal feature
of the Supreme, advancement is very troublesome. To make progress in
that discipline is always difficult for those who are embodied.
Chapter 12, Verse 6-7.
For
one who worships Me, giving up all his activities unto Me and being
devoted to Me without deviation, engaged in devotional service and
always meditating upon Me, who has fixed his mind upon Me, O son of
Prtha, for him I am the swift deliverer from the ocean of birth and
death.
Chapter 12, Verse 8.
Just
fix your mind upon Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and engage
all your intelligence in Me. Thus you will live in Me always, without a
doubt.
Chapter 12, Verse 9.
My
dear Arjuna, O winner of wealth, if you cannot fix your mind upon Me
without deviation, then follow the regulated principles of bhakti-yoga.
In this way you will develop a desire to attain to Me.
Chapter 12, Verse 10.
If
you cannot practice the regulations of bhakti-yoga, then just try to
work for Me, because by working for Me you will come to the perfect
stage.
Chapter 12, Verse 11.
If,
however, you are unable to work in this consciousness, then try to act
giving up all results of your work and try to be self-situated.
Chapter 12, Verse 12.
If
you cannot take to this practice, then engage yourself in the
cultivation of knowledge. Better than knowledge, however, is meditation,
and better than meditation is renunciation of the fruits of action, for
by such renunciation one can attain peace of mind.
Chapter 12, Verse 13-14.
One
who is not envious but who is a kind friend to all living entities, who
does not think himself a proprietor, who is free from false ego and
equal both in happiness and distress, who is always satisfied and
engaged in devotional service with determination and whose mind and
intelligence are in agreement with Me--he is very dear to Me.
Chapter 12, Verse 15.
He
for whom no one is put into difficulty and who is not disturbed by
anxiety, who is steady in happiness and distress, is very dear to Me.
Chapter 12, Verse 16.
A
devotee who is not dependent on the ordinary course of activities, who
is pure, expert, without cares, free from all pains, and who does not
strive for some result, is very dear to Me.
Chapter 12, Verse 17.
One
who neither grasps pleasure or grief, who neither laments nor desires,
and who renounces both auspicious and inauspicious things, is very dear
to Me.
Chapter 12, Verse 18-19.
One
who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equipoised in honor and
dishonor, heat and cold, happiness and distress, fame and infamy, who is
always free from contamination, always silent and satisfied with
anything, who doesn't care for any residence, who is fixed in knowledge
and engaged in devotional service, is very dear to Me.
Chapter 12, Verse 20.
He
who follows this imperishable path of devotional service and who
completely engages himself with faith, making Me the supreme goal, is
very, very dear to Me.
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