BHAGVAD GITA

Of all of these, he who has gained wisdom, who meditates on Me without ceasing,
devoting himself only to Me, he is the best; for by the wise man I am exceedingly beloved
and the wise man, too, is beloved by Me.


Noble-minded are they all, but the wise man I hold as my own Self; for he, remaining
always at peace with Me, makes me his final goal.


After many lives, at last the wise man realises Me as I am. A man so enlightened that he
sees God everywhere is very difficult to find.


They in whom wisdom is obscured by one desire or the other, worship the lesser Powers,
practising many rites which vary according to their temperaments.


But whatever the form of worship, if the devotee have faith, then upon his faith in that
worship do I set My own seal.


If he worships one form alone with real faith, then shall his desires be fulfilled through
that only; for thus have I ordained.


The fruit that comes to men of limited insight is, after all, finite. They who worship the
Lower Powers attain them; but those who worship Me come unto Me alone.


The ignorant think of Me, who am the Unmanifested Spirit, as if I were really in human
form. They do not understand that My Superior Nature is changeless and most excellent.


I am not visible to all, for I am enveloped by the illusion of Phenomenon. This deluded
world does not know Me as the Unborn and the Imperishable.


I know, O Arjuna, all beings in the past, the present and the future; but they do not know
Me.


O brave Arjuna! Man lives in a fairy world, deceived by the glamour of opposite
sensations, infatuated by desire and aversion.


But those who act righteously, in whom sin has been destroyed, who are free from the
infatuation of the conflicting emotions, they worship Me with firm resolution.


Those who make Me their refuge, who strive for liberation from decay and Death, they
realise the Supreme Spirit, which is their own real Self, and in which all action finds its
consummation.


Those who see Me in the life of the world, in the universal sacrifice, and as pure Divinity,
keeping their minds steady, they live in Me, even in the crucial hour of death.”


Thus, in the Holy Book the Bhagavad Gita, one of the Upanishads, in the Science of the Supreme
Spirit, in the Art of Self-Knowledge, in the Colloquy between the Divine Lord Shri Krishna and the
Prince Arjuna, stand the seventh chapter, entitled: Knowledge and Experience.