॥ Om Sri Paramadmane Nama:॥ Ada Dwaadasho’dhyaayah:। Bhakti Yoga (The path of devotion)

Arjuna Uvacha।

evam satata-yukta ye bhaktas tvam paryupasate। ye chapy aksharam avyaktam tesham ke yoga-vittamah॥ 12.1 ॥

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

Sri Bhagavan Uvacha।

mayy avesya mano ye mam nitya-yukta upasate। shraddhaya parayopetas te me yuktatama matah॥ 12.2 ॥

Sri Bhagavan said: O Arjuna, Those who fix their minds on My personal form and are always engaged in worshiping Me with great and transcendental faith are considered by Me to be most perfect.

ye tv aksharam anirdesyam avyaktam paryupasate। sarvatra-gam acintyam cha kuta-stham achalam dhruvam॥ 12.3 ॥ sanniyamyendriya-gramam sarvatra sama-buddhayah:। te prapnuvanti mam eva sarva-bhuta-hite ratah:॥ 12.4 ॥

O Arjuna, But those who fully worship the unmanifested, that which lies beyond the perception of the senses, the all-pervading, inconceivable, unchanging, 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.

kleso ’dhikataras tesam avyaktasakta-cetasam। avyakta hi gatir duhkham dehavadbhir avapyate॥ 12.5 ॥

Sri Krishna said: O Arjuna, 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.

ye tu sarvani karmani mayi sannyasya mat-parah:। ananyenaiva yogena mam dhyayanta upasate॥ 12.6 ॥ tesam aham samuddharta mrityu-samsara-sagarat। bhavami na cirat partha mayy avesita-cetasam॥ 12.7 ॥

O Arjuna, But those who worship Me, giving up all their activities unto Me and being devoted to Me without deviation, engaged in devotional service and always meditating upon Me, having fixed their minds upon Me, for them I am the swift deliverer from the ocean of birth and death.