The Path of Devotion — Bhakti Yoga
Chapter 12 of Bhagavad Gita by Vyasa
Arjuna. Of those who, ever-faithful, worship Thee — The True, the Manifest — and those who serve The Unmanifest, the Imperishable, which Are the better versed in Yoga? Which of these Is the more perfect, the more blessed path?
Krishna. Whoso with fixed faith worship Me, making Me Their utmost aim, with hearts set hard on Me — Those hold I very holy. But who serve The Undefinable, the Unmanifest, The Omnipresent, Inconceivable, Unchanging, Unremovable, the Fixed — Bridling all sense, with equal mind for all, Seeking the welfare of all living things — Those also come to Me.
Yet greater is The toil of those whose minds are set upon The Unmanifest; that is the harder road For embodied souls to tread. But they who cast All acts on Me, making Me all in all, Worshipping Me with meditation fixed Upon none other — those, Arjuna! swift I lift them from the flood of death, for them Whose souls fix thought on Me. Set then thy heart Upon Me only, fill thy mind with Me; So shalt thou dwell in Me hereafter. Of this Be thou assured. In Me alone abide!
