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rush to their destruction like moths into a flame.
Your nature and workings confound me.
32 I am time, the destroyer of all; I have come to consume the world. Even without your participation, all the warriors gathered here will die.
all evil flees before you to the far corners of the universe.
You pervade everything; you are everything.
There is none to equal you in the three worlds. Who can match your power?
As a father forgives his son, or a friend a friend, or a lover his beloved, so should you forgive me.
Those who make me the supreme goal of all their work and act
without selfish attachment, who devote themselves to me completely and are free from ill will for any creature, enter into me.
“By love He can be gotten and holden, by thought never.”
Love never faileth. But whether there be prophecies, they shall fail. Whether there be tongues, they shall cease. Whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.”
The word tyaga here seems to mean renunciation or abandonment of self-will more than anything else. Such self-surrender may be a last resort, but if it is genuine it brings immediate peace.
But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion,
these I will swiftly rescue from the fragment’s cycle of birth and death,
Still your mind in me, still your intellect in me, and without doubt you will be united with me forever.
If you are unable to do even this, surrender yourself to me, disciplining yourself and renouncing the results of all your actions.
That one I love who is incapable of ill will, who is friendly and compassionate.
Living beyond the reach of “I” and “mine” and of pleasure and pain, 14 patient, contented, self-controlled, firm in faith, with all their heart and all their mind given to me – with such as these I am in love.
Not agitating the world or by it agitated, they stand above the sway of elation,
competition, and fear: that one is my beloved.
They are detached, pure, efficient, impartial, never anxious, selfless in all their undertakings; they are my devotees, very dear to me.
That one is dear to me who runs not after the pleasant or away from the painful, grieves not, lusts not, but lets things come and go as they happen.
That devotee who looks upon friend and foe with equal regard, who is not buoyed up by praise nor cast down by blame, alike in heat and cold, pleasure and pain, free from selfish attachments, 19 the same in honor and dishonor, quiet, ever full, in harmony everywhere, firm in faith – such a one is dear to me.
I am the Knower of the field in everyone, Arjuna.
They are gentle, forgiving, upright, and pure, devoted to their spiritual teacher, filled with inner strength, and self-controlled. 8 Detached from sense objects and self-will, they have learned the painful lesson of separate birth and suffering, old age, disease, and death.
Free from selfish attachment, they do not get compulsively entangled even in home and family. They are even-minded through good fortune and bad. 10 Their devotion to me is undivided. Enjoying solitude and not following the crowd, they seek only me.
This is true knowledge, to seek the Self as the true end of wisdom always. To seek anything else is ignorance.
It dwells in all, in every hand and foot and head, in every mouth and eye and ear in the universe.
Beyond the gunas, it enjoys their play.
Prakriti is the agent, cause, and effect of every action,
They alone see truly who see the Lord the same in every creature, who see the deathless in the hearts of all that die.
Seeing the same Lord everywhere, they do not harm themselves or others.
They alone see truly who see that all actions are performed by prakriti, while the Self remains unmoved.
even the emotions and thoughts that seem so personal, so interior, are really only the play of prakriti.
The illumined man or woman maintains a joyful evenness of mind in happiness and sorrow.
The wise see clearly that all action is the work of the gunas. Knowing that which is above the gunas, they enter into union with me.
They are unmoved by the harmony of sattva, the activity of rajas, or the delusion of tamas.
nor do they crave for them when these forces subside.
Knowing that it is the gunas which act, they abide within themselves and do not vacillate.
Established within themselves, they are equal in pleasure and pain, praise and blame, kindness and unkindness.
Alike in honor and dishonor, alike to friend and foe, they have given up every selfish pursuit.
Cut down this strong-rooted tree with the sharp ax of detachment;
Not deluded by pride, free from selfish attachment and selfish desire, beyond the duality of pleasure and pain,
I give the power to remember and understand;
The higher tendency, the divine, leads to increasing happiness in the course of the soul’s evolution, and eventually to its liberation;
No divine character from Hindu myth escapes a challenge from some demon. Usually the god or goddess is victorious; but often the demon will win a battle or two, though not the final victory.
Be fearless and pure; never waver in your determination or your dedication to the spiritual life. Give freely. Be self-controlled, sincere, truthful, loving, and full of the desire to serve.
learn to be detached and to take joy in renunciation.
Do not get angry or harm any living creature, but be compassionate and gentle; show good will to all. 3 Cultivate vigor, patience, will, purity; avoid malice and pride. Then...
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There are three gates to this self-destructive hell: lust, anger, and greed. Renounce these three.
