Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed. |
Detached action is unselfish work. |
Detachment, non-fondness with son, wife, and home; unfailing equanimity upon attainment of the desirable and the undesirable; and / Unswerving devotion to Me by the yoga of exclusivity, love for solitude, distaste for social gossips; and / Steadfastness in knowledge of the Supreme Spirit, and the perception of (the omnipresent God as) the object of true knowledge is called knowledge; what is contrary to this is ignorance. |
Discrimination, knowledge, non-delusion, forgiveness, truthfulness, control over the mind and senses, pleasure, pain, birth, death, fear, fearlessness; . |
Divine qualities lead to nirvana, the demonic [qualities] are said to be for bondage. Do not grieve, O Arjuna, you are born with divine qualities. |
Do not be perturbed and deluded by seeing such a terrible form of Mine as this. With fearless and cheerful mind, now behold My four-armed form. |
Do your duty, to the best of your abilities, for the Lord without any selfish motive, and remember God at all times - before starting a work, at the completion of a task, and while inactive. |
Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego-all together these eight contitute my separted material energies |
Endowed with purified intellect, subduing the mind with resolve, turning away from sound and other objects of the senses, giving up likes and dislikes. |
Endowed with steady faith they worship that deity, and fulfill their wishes through that deity. Those wishes are, indeed, granted only by Me. |
Entering the earth I support all beings with My energy; becoming the sap-giving moon I nourish all the plants. |
Entering the wombs of demons birth after birth, the deluded ones sink to the lowest hell without ever attaining Me. |
Established in Self-Realization, one is not moved even by the greatest calamity. |
Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will. |
Even if one is the most sinful of all sinners, yet one shall cross over the ocean of sin by the raft of knowledge alone. |