I consider one to be the most devoted of all the yogis who lovingly contemplates on Me with supreme faith. |
I desire neither victory nor pleasure nor kingdom, O Krishna. What is the use of the kingdom, or enjoyment, or even life, O Krishna? |
I do not perceive that gaining an unrivaled and prosperous kingdom on this earth, or even lordship over the gods will remove the sorrow that is drying up my senses. |
I do not wish to kill them, who are also about to kill, even for the sovereignty of the three worlds, let alone for this earthly kingdom, O Krishna. |
I give heat, I send as well as withhold the rain, I am immortality as well as death. |
I give the knowledge, to those who are ever united with Me and lovingly adore Me. |
I hurl these haters, cruel, sinful, and mean people of the world, into the wombs of demons again and again. |
I know, O Arjuna, the beings of the past, of the present, and those of the future, but no one really knows Me. |
I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them. |
I see You with Your crown, club, discus; and a mass of radiance, difficult to behold, shining all around with immeasurable brilliance of the sun and the blazing fire. |
I shall be the cause of confusion and destruction of all these people. |
I shall fully describe the object of knowledge, knowing which one attains immortality. |
I shall fully explain to you the Self-knowledge together with Self-realization after knowing that nothing more remains to be known in this world. |
If due to ego you think: I shall not fight; this resolve of yours is vain. Your own nature will compel you. |
If the splendor of thousands of suns were to blaze forth all at once in the sky, even that would not resemble the splendor of that exalted being. |