People worship [or approach] Me with different motives. |
Perform your obligatory duty, because action is indeed better than inaction. |
Persons of demonic nature do not know what to do and what not to do. They neither have purity nor good conduct nor truthfulness. |
Persons of firm resolve worship Me with ever steadfast devotion by always singing My glories, striving to attain Me, and prostrating before Me. |
Persons of virtuous deeds, whose deed has come to an end, become free from the delusion of dualities and worship Me with firm resolve. |
Pleasures derived from the contact of senses with their objects are verily the source of misery, and have a beginning and an end. |
Practice to look upon all creatures as Myself in thought, word, and deed; and mentally bow down to them. |
Remembering whatever object one leaves the body at the end of life, one attains that object, O Arjuna, because of the constant thought of that object (one remembers that object at the end of life and achieves it). |
Renunciation of the fruit of work is better than meditation. |
Restless senses, O Arjuna, forcibly carry away the mind of even a wise person striving for perfection. |
Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below. |
SAT is used in the sense of reality and goodness. The word 'SAT' is also used for an auspicious act, O Arjuna. |
Scarcely any one of the striving, or even the perfected persons, truly understands Me. |
Scarcely one out of thousands of persons strives for perfection of Self-realization. |
Seeing fathers-in-law, all those kinsmen, and other dear ones standing in the ranks of the two armies, / Arjuna was overcome with great compassion and sorrowfully said: O Krishna, seeing my kinsmen standing with a desire to fight, / My limbs fail and my mouth becomes dry. My body quivers and my hairs stand on end. |