9. If you are unable to fix your mind steadily on Me, then by Abhyâsa Yoga (Withdrawing the Mind) do you seek to reach Me, O Dhananjaya.
10. If also you are unable to practice Abhyâsa, be you intent on doing actions for My sake. Even by doing actions for My sake, you shall attain perfection.
11. If you are unable to do even this, then taking refuge in Me, abandon the fruit of all action, self-controlled.
12. Better indeed is knowledge than blind Abhyâsa; meditation with knowledge is more esteemed than mere knowledge; than meditation the renunciation of the fruit of action; peace immediately follows renunciation.
13-14. He who hates no creature, and is friendly and compassionate towards all, who is free from the feelings of "I" and "mine", even-minded in pain and pleasure, forbearing, ever content, steady in meditation, self-controlled, and possessed of firm conviction, with mind and intellect fixed on Me—he who is thus devoted to Me, is dear to Me.
15. He by whom the world is not agitated and who cannot be agitated by the world, who is freed from joy, envy, fear and anxiety—he is dear to Me.
16. He who is free from dependence, who is pure, prompt, unconcerned, untroubled, renouncing every undertaking—he who is thus devoted to Me, is dear to Me.
17. He who neither rejoices, nor hates, nor grieves, nor desires, renouncing good and evil, full of devotion, he is dear to Me.
18-19. He who is the same to friend and foe, and also in honor and dishonor; who is the same in heat and cold, and in pleasure and pain; who is free from attachment; to whom censure and praise are equal; who is silent, content with anything, homeless, steady-minded, full of devotion—that man is dear to Me.
20. And they who follow this Immortal Dharma, as described above, endued with Shraddhâ, regarding Me as the Supreme Goal, and devoted—they are exceedingly dear to Me.
—Bhagavad Gita, 12:9-20
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