Be aware of me always, adore me, make every act an offering to me, and you shall come to me;
this I promise; for you are dear to me.
The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18:65, Easwaran translation
Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart—a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water—I accept with joy. Whatever you do, make it an offering to me—the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering. In this way you will be freed from the bondage of karma, and from its results both pleasant and painful. Then, firm in renunciation and yoga, with your heart free, you will come to me… those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them… All those who take refuge in me… will attain the supreme goal… Fill your mind with me; love me; serve me; worship me always. Seeking me in your heart, you will at last be united with me.
The Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 9:26–34; Easwaran translation
Abandon all supports and look to me for protection. I shall purify you from the sins of the past; do not grieve.
The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18:66; Easwaran translation
I give you these precious words of wisdom; reflect on them… Those who meditate on these holy words worship me with wisdom and devotion.
The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18:63 & 70; Easwaran translation
The impermanent has no reality; reality lies in the eternal.
Those who have seen the boundary between these two have attained the end of all knowledge.
Realize that which pervades the universe and is indestructible; no power can affect this unchanging, imperishable reality.
The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2:16-17; Easwaran translation
One believes he is the slayer, another believes he is the slain. Both are ignorant; there is neither slayer nor slain.
You were never born; you will never die. You have never changed; you can never change.
Unborn, eternal, immutable, immemorial, you do not die when the body dies.
The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2:19-20; Easwaran translation
On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure.
Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.
The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2:40; Easwaran translation
For those whose minds are attached to the unmanifest, the path of realization is full of tribulations.
Worship of the unmanifest is exceedingly difficult for embodied beings.
Fix your mind on Me alone and surrender your intellect to Me.
There upon, you will always live in Me. Of this, there is no doubt.
If you are unable to fix your mind steadily on Me, O Arjun,
then practice remembering Me with devotion while constantly restraining the mind from worldly affairs.
If you cannot practice remembering Me with devotion, then just try to work for Me.
Thus performing devotional service to Me, you shall achieve the stage of perfection.
If you are unable to even work for Me in devotion, then try to renounce the fruits of your actions
and be situated in the self.
Better than mechanical practice is knowledge; better than knowledge is meditation.
Better than meditation is renunciation of the fruits of actions, for peace immediately follows such renunciation.
The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 12:5, 8-12; Mukundananda translation
The form which you are seeing with your transcendental eyes cannot be understood simply by studying the Vedas,
nor by undergoing serious penances, nor by charity, nor by worship. It is not by these means that one can see Me as I am.
My dear Arjuna, only by undivided devotional service can I be understood as I am, standing before you, and can thus be seen directly. Only in this way can you enter into the mysteries of My understanding.
Bhagavad-gita, As It Is: Chapter 11:53-54; Bhaktivedanta translation
Be fearless and pure; never waver in your determination or your dedication to the spiritual life.
The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 16:1; Easwaran translation
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.
The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 12:17; Easwaran translation
