Ye Suddha Bhakta Ye Krsna Tomate Satata

Arjuna inquired: Which is considered to be more perfect, those who are properly
engaged in Your devotional service, or those who worship the impersonal
Brahman, the unmanifested?

The Blessed Lord said: He whose mind is fixed on My personal form, always
engaged in worshiping Me with great and transcendental faith, is considered by
Me to be most perfect.

But those who fully worship the unmanifested, that which lies beyond the
perception of the senses, the all-pervading, inconceivable, fixed and
immovable--the impersonal conception of the Absolute Truth--by controlling the
various senses and being equally disposed to everyone, such persons, engaged in
the welfare of all, at last achieve Me.

For those whose minds are attached to the unmanifested, impersonal feature of
the Supreme, advancement is very troublesome. To make progress in that
discipline is always difficult for those who are embodied.

For one who worships Me, giving up all his activities unto Me and being devoted
to Me without deviation, engaged in devotional service and always meditating
upon Me, who has fixed his mind upon Me, O son of Prtha, for him I am the swift
deliverer from the ocean of birth and death.

Just fix your mind upon Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and engage all
your intelligence in Me. Thus you will live in Me always, without a doubt.

My dear Arjuna, O winner of wealth, if you cannot fix your mind upon Me without
deviation, then follow the regulated principles of bhakti-yoga. In this way you
will develop a desire to attain to Me.

If you cannot practice the regulations of bhakti-yoga, then just try to work
for Me, because by working for Me you will come to the perfect stage.

If, however, you are unable to work in this consciousness, then try to act
giving up all results of your work and try to be self-situated.

If you cannot take to this practice, then engage yourself in the cultivation of
knowledge. Better than knowledge, however, is meditation, and better than
meditation is renunciation of the fruits of action, for by such renunciation
one can attain peace of mind.

One who is not envious but who is a kind friend to all living entities, who
does not think himself a proprietor, who is free from false ego and equal both
in happiness and distress, who is always satisfied and engaged in devotional
service with determination and whose mind and intelligence are in agreement
with Me--he is very dear to Me.

He for whom no one is put into difficulty and who is not disturbed by anxiety,
who is steady in happiness and distress, is very dear to Me.

A devotee who is not dependent on the ordinary course of activities, who is
pure, expert, without cares, free from all pains, and who does not strive for
some result, is very dear to Me.

One who neither grasps pleasure or grief, who neither laments nor desires, and
who renounces both auspicious and inauspicious things, is very dear to Me.

One who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equipoised in honor and
dishonor, heat and cold, happiness and distress, fame and infamy, who is always
free from contamination, always silent and satisfied with anything, who doesn't
care for any residence, who is fixed in knowledge and engaged in devotional
service, is very dear to Me.

He
who follows this imperishable path of devotional service and who completely
engages himself with faith, making Me the supreme goal, is very, very dear to
Me.

Thus Bhaktivedanta sings the song of Sri Gita, with the hope that hearing this,
Krsna conscious pure devotees will be pleased.