Gita 12.1
अर्जुन उवाच। एवं सततयुक्ता ये भक्तास्त्वां पर्युपासते। ये चाप्यक्षरमव्यक्तं तेषां के योगवित्तमाः॥
arjuna uvāca evaṁ satata-yuktā ye bhaktās tvāṁ paryupāsate ye cāpy akṣaram avyaktaṁ teṣāṁ ke yoga-vittamāḥ
"Arjuna said: Those devotees who, ever steadfast, thus worship You, and those who worship the imperishable and unmanifested, which of them are better versed in yoga?"
All 20 verses of Chapter 12
- 12.1Arjuna said: Those devotees who, ever steadfast, thus worship You, and those who worship the imperishable...
- 12.2The Blessed Lord said: Those who, fixing their minds on Me, worship Me with ever-steadfast devotion and...
- 12.3But those who worship the imperishable, the indefinable, the unmanifested, the omnipresent, the...
- 12.4Having restrained all the senses, being even-minded everywhere, engaged in the welfare of all beings, they...
- 12.5Greater is the difficulty of those whose minds are attached to the unmanifested, for the goal of the...
- 12.6But those who surrender all actions to Me, regarding Me as the supreme goal, meditating on Me with...
- 12.7For them whose minds are set on Me, O Partha, I become the deliverer from the ocean of mortal samsara, not...
- 12.8Fix your mind on Me alone, place your intellect in Me; thereafter you shall dwell in Me alone. There is no...
- 12.9If you are unable to fix your mind steadily on Me, then seek to reach Me by the yoga of repeated practice...
- 12.10If you are unable even to practice, then be intent on action for My sake. Even by performing actions for...
- 12.11If you are unable to do even this, then, resorting to My yoga, renounce the fruits of all actions, being...
- 12.12Knowledge is better than practice; meditation is better than knowledge; renunciation of the fruits of...
- 12.13One who hates no being, who is friendly and compassionate to all, free from possessiveness and ego, equal...
- 12.14Ever content, the yogi, self-controlled, of firm resolve, with mind and intellect dedicated to Me, that...
- 12.15One by whom the world is not agitated and who is not agitated by the world, who is free from joy, envy...
- 12.16One who is free from wants, pure, capable, neutral, free from distress, renouncing all undertakings, that...
- 12.17One who neither rejoices nor hates, neither grieves nor desires, who renounces both good and evil, full of...
- 12.18Equal toward enemy and friend, honor and dishonor, cold and heat, pleasure and pain, equal, free from...
- 12.19Alike in blame and praise, silent, content with anything, homeless, steady-minded, full of devotion, such...
- 12.20But those who worship this immortal dharma as declared, endowed with faith, regarding Me as the supreme...