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ARJUNA:
LORD! of the men who serve Theetrue in heart |
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As God revealed; and of the men who serve, |
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Worshipping Thee Unrevealed, Unbodied, far, |
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Which take the better way of faith and life? |
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KRISHNA:
Whoever serve Meas I show Myself |
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Constantly true, in full devotion fixed, |
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These hold I very holy. But who serve |
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Worshipping Me The One, The Invisible, |
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The Unrevealed, Unnamed, Unthinkable, |
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Uttermost, All-pervading, Highest, Sure |
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Who thus adore Me, mastering their sense, |
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Of one set mind to all, glad in all good, |
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These blessed souls come unto Me. |
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Yet, hard |
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The travail is for whoso bend their minds |
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To reach th Unmanifest. That viewless path |
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Shall scarce be trod by man bearing his flesh! |
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But whereso any doeth all his deeds, |
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Renouncing self in Me, full of Me, fixed |
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To serve only the Highest, night and day |
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Musing on Mehim will I swiftly lift |
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Forth from lifes ocean of distress and death |
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Whose soul clings fast to Me. Cling thou to Me! |
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Clasp Me with heart and mind! so shalt thou dwell |
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Surely with Me on high. But if thy thought |
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Droops from such height; if thou best weak to set |
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Body and soul upon Me constantly, |
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Despair not! give Me lower service! seek |
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To read Me, worshipping with steadfast will; |
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And, if thou canst not worship steadfastly, |
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Work for Me, toil in works pleasing to Me! |
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For he that laboreth right for love of Me |
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Shall finally attain! But, if in this |
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Thy faint heart fails, bring Me thy failure! find |
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Refuge in Me! let fruits of labor go, |
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Renouncing all for Me, with lowliest heart, |
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So shalt thou come; for, though to know is more |
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Than diligence, yet worship better is |
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Than knowing, and renouncing better still |
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Near to renunciationvery near |
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Dwelleth Eternal Peace! |
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Who hateth nought |
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Of all which lives, living himself benign, |
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Compassionate, from arrogance exempt, |
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Exempt from love of self, unchangeable |
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By good or ill; patient, contented, firm |
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In faith, mastering himself, true to his word, |
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Seeking Me, heart and soul; vowed unto Me, |
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That man I love! Who troubleth not his kind, |
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And is not troubled by them; clear of wrath, |
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Living too high for gladness, grief, or fear, |
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That man I love! Who, dwelling quiet-eyed, 1 |
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Stainless, serene, well-balanced, unperplexed, |
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Working with Me, yet from all works detached, |
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That man I love! Who, fixed in faith on Me, |
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Dotes upon none, scorns none; rejoices not, |
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And grieves not, letting good and evil hap |
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Light when it will, and when it will depart, |
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That man I love! Who, unto friend and foe |
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Keeping an equal heart, with equal mind |
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Bears shame and glory, with an equal peace |
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Takes heat and cold, pleasure and pain; abides |
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Quit of desires, hears praise or calumny |
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In passionless restraint, unmoved by each, |
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Linked by no ties to earth, steadfast in Me, |
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That man I love! But most of all I love |
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Those happy ones to whom tis life to live |
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In single fervid faith and love unseeing, |
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Eating the blessèd Amrit of my Being! |
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Here endeth Chapter XII. of the Bhagavad-Gîtâ,
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