Wearing divine garlands and apparel, anointed with celestial perfumes and ointments, full of all wonders, the limitless God with faces on all sides. |
What is the need for this detailed knowledge, O Arjuna? I continually support the entire universe by a small fraction of My energy. |
What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men. |
What the creation is, what it is like, what its transformations are, where the source is, who that creator is, and what His powers are, hear all these from Me in brief. |
What you do not wish to do out of delusion; you shall do even that against your will, bound by your own nature-born Karma, O Arjuna. |
Whatever action, whether right or wrong, one performs by thought, word, and deed; these are its five causes. |
Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart - a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water - I accept with joy. |
Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart - a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water - I accept with joy. |
Whatever is endowed with glory, brilliance, and power; know that to be a manifestation of a fraction of My splendor. |
Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering. |
Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer as oblation to the sacred fire, whatever charity you give, whatever austerity you perform, do all that as an offering unto Me. |
When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place. |
When one perceives diverse variety of beings resting in One and spreading out from That alone, then one attains Brahman. |
When the mind disciplined by the practice of meditation becomes steady, one becomes content in the Self by beholding Him with [purified] intellect. |
When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently. |