Bhagavad Gita Chapter 12

एवं सततयुक्ता ये भक्तास्त्वां पर्युपासते । ये चाप्यक्षरमव्यक्तं तेषां के योगवित्तमाः ॥

Those who are ever steadfast and worship You with devotion — and those who worship the imperishable, the unmanifest — of…

श्रीभगवानुवाच मय्यावेश्य मनो ये मां नित्ययुक्ता उपासते । श्रद्धया परयोपेताः ते मे युक्ततमा मताः ॥

The Blessed Lord said: Those who fix their mind on Me, always united with Me, worshipping Me with supreme faith — these …

ये त्वक्षरमनिर्देश्यम् अव्यक्तं पर्युपासते । सर्वत्रगमचिन्त्यं च कूटस्थमचलं ध्रुवम् ॥

Those who worship the Imperishable, the Indefinable, the Unmanifest, the all-pervading, the inconceivable, the unchangin…

सन्नियम्येन्द्रियग्रामं सर्वत्र समबुद्धयः । ते प्राप्नुवन्ति मामेव सर्वभूतहिते रताः ॥

By restraining the aggregate of senses, even-minded everywhere, intent on the welfare of all beings — they too attain Me…

क्लेशोऽधिकतरस्तेषां अव्यक्तासक्तचेतसाम् । अव्यक्ता हि गतिर्दुःखं देहवद्भिरवाप्यते ॥

Greater is the difficulty for those whose minds are attached to the unmanifest; for the path of the unmanifest is hard t…

ये तु सर्वाणि कर्माणि मयि संन्यस्य मत्पराः । अनन्येनैव योगेन मां ध्यायन्त उपासते ॥

But those who, offering all their actions to Me and holding Me as their supreme goal, worship Me and meditate on Me with…

तेषामहं समुद्धर्ता मृत्युसंसारसागरात् । भवामि नचिरात्पार्थ मय्यावेशितचेतसाम् ॥

For those whose minds are absorbed in Me, I quickly become the deliverer from the ocean of mortal samsara, O Partha.…

मय्येव मन आधत्स्व मयि बुद्धिं निवेशय । निवसिष्यसि मय्येव अत ऊर्ध्वं न संशयः ॥

Fix your mind on Me alone, place your intellect in Me — you shall live in Me hereafter, without doubt.…

अथ चित्तं समाधातुं न शक्नोषि मयि स्थिरम् । अभ्यासयोगेन ततो मामिच्छाप्तुं धनञ्जय ॥

But if you are not able to fix the mind steadily on Me — then seek to reach Me by the yoga of practice (abhyasa), O Dhan…

अभ्यासेऽप्यसमर्थोऽसि मत्कर्मपरमो भव । मदर्थमपि कर्माणि कुर्वन्सिद्धिमवाप्स्यसि ॥

If you are also unable to practice (abhyasa), then be devoted to My work; performing actions for My sake, you shall atta…

अथैतदप्यशक्तोऽसि कर्तुं मद्योगमाश्रितः । सर्वकर्मफलत्यागं ततः कुरु यतात्मवान् ॥

But if you are also incapable of this — then, taking refuge in My yoga, renounce the fruits of all actions with self-con…

श्रेयो हि ज्ञानमभ्यासाज् ज्ञानाद्ध्यानं विशिष्यते । ध्यानात्कर्मफलत्यागः त्यागाच्छान्तिरनन्तरम् ॥

Better than practice (abhyasa) is knowledge; better than knowledge is meditation; better than meditation is renunciation…

अद्वेष्टा सर्वभूतानां मैत्रः करुण एव च । निर्ममो निरहङ्कारः समदुःखसुखः क्षमी ॥

One who has no hatred for any being, who is friendly and compassionate, free from possessiveness and ego, the same in pl…

सन्तुष्टः सततं योगी यतात्मा दृढनिश्चयः । मय्यर्पितमनोबुद्धिः यो मद्भक्तः स मे प्रियः ॥

Always content, a meditator (yogi), self-controlled, of firm conviction, with mind and intellect offered to Me — such a …

यस्मान्नोद्विजते लोको लोकान्नोद्विजते च यः । हर्षामर्षभयोद्वेगैः मुक्तो यः स च मे प्रियः ॥

One by whom the world is not agitated, and who is not agitated by the world, and who is free from elation, resentment, f…

अनपेक्षः शुचिर्दक्ष उदासीनो गतव्यथः । सर्वारम्भपरित्यागी यो मद्भक्तः स मे प्रियः ॥

Free from needs, pure, skilled, unconcerned, untroubled, who has renounced all undertakings — one who is devoted to Me i…

यो न हृष्यति न द्वेष्टि न शोचति न काङ्क्षति । शुभाशुभपरित्यागी भक्तिमान्यः स मे प्रियः ॥

One who neither rejoices nor hates, neither grieves nor desires, who has relinquished both auspicious and inauspicious —…

समः शत्रौ च मित्रे च तथा मानापमानयोः । शीतोष्णसुखदुःखेषु समः सङ्गविवर्जितः ॥

Equal toward enemy and friend, and in honor and dishonor, equal in cold and heat and in pleasure and pain, free from att…

तुल्यनिन्दास्तुतिर्मौनी सन्तुष्टो येन केन चित् । अनिकेतः स्थिरमतिर् भक्तिमान्मे प्रियो नरः ॥

Equal toward blame and praise, silent, content with anything, without fixed home, of steady mind — a person devoted to M…

ये तु धर्म्यामृतमिदं यथोक्तं पर्युपासते । श्रद्दधाना मत्परमा भक्तास्तेऽतीव मे प्रियाः ॥

But those who follow this immortal dharma as described, endowed with faith, regarding Me as the supreme — those devotees…