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Chapter-12
Bhakti Yog
1: Arjuna inquired: Which are
considered to be more perfect, those who are always
properlt engaged in Your devotional service or those who
worship the impersonal Brahman, the unmanifested?
2: The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Those
who fix their minds on My personal form and are always
engaged in worshiping Me with great and transcendental
faith are considered by Me to be most perfect.
3-4: But those who fully worship the unmanifested,
that which lies beyond the perfection of the senses, the
all-pervading, inconceivable, unchanging, 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.
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.
6-7: But those who worship Me, giving up all their
activities unto Me and being devoted to Me without
deviation, engaged in devotional service and always
meditating upon Me, having fixed their minds upon Me, O
son of Prtha-for them I am the swift deliverer from the
ocean of birth and death.
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.
9: My dear Arjuna, O winner of wealth, if you
cannot fix your mind upon Me without deviation, then
follow the regulative principles of bhakti-yoga. In this
way develop a desire to attain Me.
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.
11: If, however, you are unable to work in this
conciousness of Me, then try to act giving up all
results of your work and try to be self-situated.
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.
13-14: One who is not envious but a kind friend to
all living entities, who does not think himself a
proprietor and is free from false ego, who is equal in
happiness and distress, who is tolerant, always
satisfied, self-controlled, and engaged in devotional
service with determination, his mind and intelligence
fixed on Me-such a devotee of Mine is very dear to Me.
15: He for whom no one is put into the difficulty
and who is not disturbed by anyone, who is equipoised in
happiness and distress, fear and anxiety, is very dear
to Me.
16: My devotee who is not dependent on the ordinary
course of activities, who is pure, expert, without
cares, free from all pains, and not striving for some
result, is very dear to Me.
17: One who neither rejoices nor grieves, who
neither laments nor desires, and who renounces both
auspicious and inauspicious things-such a devotee is
very dear to Me.
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 contaminating association, always silent and
satisfied with anything, who doesn’t care for any
residence, who is fixed in knowledge and who is engaged
in devotional service-such a person is very dear to Me.
20: Those who follow this imperishable path of
devotional service and who completely engage themselves
with faith, making Me the supreme goal, are very, very
dear to Me.
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