BHAGVAD GITA

I am the Father of the universe and its Mother; I am its Nourisher and its Grandfather;
I am the Knowable and the Pure; I am Om; and I am the Sacred Scriptures.


I am the Goal, the Sustainer, the Lord, the Witness, the Home, the Shelter, the Lover and
the Origin; I am Life and Death; I am the Fountain and the Seed Imperishable.


I am the Heat of the Sun, I release and hold back the Rains. I am Death and Immortality;
I am Being and Not-Being.


Those who are versed in the scriptures, who drink the mystic Soma-juice and are purified
from sin, but who while worshipping Me with sacrifices pray that I will lead them to
heaven; they reach the holy world where lives the Controller of the Powers of Nature, and
they enjoy the feasts of Paradise.


Yet although they enjoy the spacious glories of Paradise, nevertheless, when their merit is
exhausted, they are born again into this world of mortals. They have followed the letter of
the scriptures, yet because they have sought but to fulfill their own desires, they must
depart and return again and again.


But if a man will meditate on Me and Me alone, and will worship Me always and
everywhere, I will take upon Myself the fulfillment of his aspiration, and I will safeguard
whatsoever he shall attain.


Even those who worship the lesser Powers, if they do so with faith, they thereby worship
Me, though not in the right way.


I am the willing recipient of sacrifice, and I am its true Lord. But these do not know me in
truth, and so they sink back.


The votaries of the lesser Powers go to them; the devotees of spirits go to them; they who
worship the Powers of Darkness, to such Powers shall they go; and so, too, those who
worship Me shall come to Me.


Whatever a man offers to Me, whether it be a leaf, or a flower, of fruit, or water, I accept it,
for it is offered with devotion and purity of mind.


Whatever thou doest, whatever thou dost eat, whatever thou dost sacrifice and give,
whatever austerities thou practisest, do all as an offering to Me.


So shall thy action be attended by no result, either good or bad; but through the spirit of
renunciation thou shalt come to Me and be free.


I am the same to all beings. I favour none, and I hate none. But those who worship Me
devotedly, they live in Me, and I in them.


Even the most sinful, if he worship Me with his whole heart, shalt be considered
righteous, for he is treading the right path.


He shall attain spirituality ere long, and Eternal Peace shall be his. O Arjuna! Believe me,
My devotee is never lost.