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Saturday, April 9, 2022

Wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita 45


Arjuna said:

1. Those devotees who, ever-steadfast, thus worship You, and those also who worship the Imperishable, the Unmanifested—which of them are better versed in Yoga? 

The Blessed Lord said:

2. Those who, fixing their mind on Me, worship Me, ever-steadfast, and endowed with supreme Shraddhâ, they in My opinion are the best versed in Yoga. 

3-4. But those also, who worship the Imperishable, the Indefinable, the Unmanifested, the Omnipresent, the Unthinkable, the Unchangeable, the Immovable, the Eternal—having subdued all the senses, even-minded everywhere, engaged in the welfare of all beings, verily, they reach only Myself. 

5. Greater is their trouble whose minds are set on the Unmanifested; for the goal of the Unmanifested is very hard for the embodied to reach.

6-7. But those who worship Me, resigning all actions in Me, regarding Me as the Supreme Goal, meditating on Me with single-minded Yoga—to these whose mind is set on Me, verily, I become before long, O son of Prithâ, the Savior out of the ocean of the mortal Samsâra. 

8. Fix your mind on Me only, place your intellect in Me: then you shall no doubt live in Me hereafter. 

Bhagavad Gita, 12:1-8 




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