Love Is Your Very Life

In love, life comes to its ultimate peak. It is only in love that we find God. Krsna declares the experience of completion and the expression of enriching of His devotee, who is very dear to Him, and reaches Him without a doubt. ...

arjuna uvāca evaṁ satata-yuktā ye bhaktāstvāṁ paryupāsate I ye cā'py akṣaram avyaktaṁ teṣāṁ ke yoga-vittamāh II 12.1

12.1 Arjuna asked: Who are considered perfect, those who are always engaged sincerely in Your worship in form, or those who worship the imperishable, the unmanifest formless You?

śrī Bhagavānuvāca mayyāveśya mano ye māṁ nityayuktā upāsate I śraddhayā parayo'petās te me yuktatamā matāḥ II 12.2

12.2 Lord Kṛṣṇa says: Those, who by fixing their mind on Me eternally, and those who are steadfast in worshipping Me with supreme faith, I consider them to be perfect in Yoga, ready to be united with Me.

ye tv akṣaram anirdeśyam avyaktaṁ paryupāsate I sarvatragam acintyaṁ ca kūṭa-stham acalaṁ dhruvam II 12.3

sanniyamyendriya-grāmaṁ sarvatra samabuddhayaḥ I te prāpnuvanti mām eva sarvabhūta-hite ratāḥ II 12.4

12.3,4 But those who worship with awareness the imperishable, the unmanifest, that which lies beyond the perception of senses, the all pervading, inconceivable, unchanging, the non-moving and permanent, those who worship by restraining their senses, and are working with even mind for the benefit of mankind, they too attain Me.

kleśo'dhikatarasteṣām avyaktāsakta-cetasām I avyaktā hi gatir duḥkhaṁ dehavadbhir avāpyate II 12.5

12.5 For those whose minds are set on the unmanifest, the formless, it is more difficult to advance; attaining the formless unmanifest is difficult for the embodied.

ye tu sarvāṇi karmāṇi mayi sannyasya matparāḥ I ananyenaiva yogena māṁ dhyāyanta upāsate II 12.6

teṣām ahaṁ samuddhartā mṛtyu-saṁsāra-sāgarāt I bhavāmi na cirātpārtha mayy āveśita cetasām II 12.7

12.6,7 But those who worship me with single minded devotion, renouncing all activities unto Me, regarding Me as their supreme goal, whose minds are set in Me, I shall deliver them soon from their ocean of the birth and death cycle.

mayyeva mana ādhatsva mayi buddhiṁ niveśaya I nivasiṣyasi mayyeva ata ūrdhvaṁ na saṁśayaḥ II 12.8

12.8 You fix your mind on Me alone, establish your mind in Me. You will live in Me always. There is no doubt in it.

atha cittaṁ samādhātuṁ na śaknoṣi mayi sthiram I abhyāsayogena tato mām icchāptuṁ dhanañjaya II 12.9

12.9 If you are not able to fix your mind upon Me then Arjuna, with the constant practice of Yoga, you try to attain Me.

abhyāse'pyasamartho'si matkarmaparamo bhava I madarthamapi karmāṇi kurvan-siddhim avāpsyasi II 12.10

12.10 If you are not able to practice even this yoga then performing your duties and surrendering all your actions to Me, you will attain perfection.

athaitad apy aśakto'si kartuṁ madyogamāśritaḥ I sarva-karma-phalatyāgaṁ tataḥ kuru yatātmavān II 12.11

12.11 If you are not able to work even this way, surrendering unto Me, give up all the results of your actions to Me without ego.