Chapter-XIII
The Yoga of Devotion
This chapter discusses the respective merits of the worshippers of Almighty with Form and without Form, and the means of God realisation. It also tells the symptoms of God-realised soul. Son of Pandu asks Sri Bhagwan that the devotees exclusively and constantly devoted to you in the manner stated just earlier, adore You as possessed of Form and attributes and those who adore as the supreme reality only the indestructible unmanifest Brahma( who is Truth, Knowledge and Bliss solidified) – of these two types of devotees who are the best knowers of Yoga. Shri Bhagwan replies that He considers them to be the best Yogis who endowed with supreme faith and ever united through meditation with Him, worship Him with mind centred on God. Those, however , who fully controlling all their senses and even minded towards all and devoted to the welfare of all the beings constantly adore as their very self the unthinkable, omnipresent, indestructible, indefinable, eternal, immovable,unmanifest and changeless Brahma, they too come to God. Of course the strain is greater for those who have their mind attached to the unmanifest for atonement with the unmanifest is attained with difficulty by those who are centred in the body. On the other hand those who depending exclusively on God and surrendering all action to Him, worship Him with attributes , constantly meditating on God with single minded devotion. Those are delivered speedily by Him from the ocean of birth and death as their mind is fixed on God. So fix your mind on Him , and establish your intellect in God alone therefore you will abide with Him undoubtedly. If you cannot steadily fix the mind on God Arjuna then you can attain Him through the Yoga of repeated practice. If you are unequal even to the pursuit to such practice be intent to work for God, you shall attain perfection in shape of God-realisation, even by performing actions for His sake. If taking recourse to the Yoga of God realisation, you are unable to do even this, then subduing your mind and intellect, etc and relinquish the fruit of all actions. Knowledge is better than practice(without discernment), meditation on God is superior to knowledge, and renunciation of the fruit of actions is even superior to meditation, for peace immediately ensues from renunciation. He, who is free from malice towards all beings, friendly and compassionate, rid of I (ego) and mine(possessions), balanced in joy and sorrow, forgiving by nature, ever contented and mentally united with God, who has subdued his mind, senses and body, has a firm resolve and has surrendered his mind and reason to the almighty Lord. His that devotee is dear to God. He who wants nothing, who is both internally and externally pure is clever and impartial and has risen above all distractions and who renounces the feeling of doership in all undertakings- that devotee is dear to Him. He who neither rejoices nor hates, nor grieves, nor desires, and who renounces both good and evil actions and is full of devotion is dear to Him. He who is alike to friend and foe, as well as to honour and ignominy, who remains balanced in heat and cold, pleasure and pain and other contrary experiences and is free from all attachment. He who take praise and reproach alike and is given to contemplation and contented with any means of subsistence whatsoever, entertains no sense of ownership and attachment in respect to his dwelling place and full of devotion to Him, that man is dear to God. Those devotees who partake in a disinterested way of this nectar of pious wisdom set forth above, endowed with faith and solely devoted to Almighty they are extremely dear to God.
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