Shloka: BG 9.1
The Blessed Lord said, "I shall now declare to thee, who does not cavil, the greatest secret—the knowledge combined with...
Shloka: BG 9.2
This is the royal science, the royal secret, the supreme purifier, realizable by direct intuitive knowledge, according t...
Shloka: BG 9.3
Those who have no faith in this Dharma, O Parantapa, return to the path of this world without attaining Me.
Shloka: BG 9.4
All of this world is pervaded by Me in My unmanifest aspect; all beings exist within Me, but I do not dwell within them.
Shloka: BG 9.5
Nor do beings exist in Me (in reality); behold, My divine Yoga, which supports all beings, but does not dwell in them, i...
Shloka: BG 9.6
As the mighty wind, moving everywhere, always rests in the ether, so too, know that all beings rest in Me.
Shloka: BG 9.7
All beings, O Arjuna, go into My Nature at the end of a Kalpa; I send them forth again at the beginning of the next Kalp...
Shloka: BG 9.8
Animating My Nature, I again and again send forth all this multitude of beings, helpless under the force of Nature.
Shloka: BG 9.9
These acts do not bind Me, O Arjuna, sitting as one indifferent, unattached to those acts.
Shloka: BG 9.10
Under Me, as supervisor, Nature produces the moving and the unmoving; therefore, O Arjuna, the world revolves.
Shloka: BG 9.11
Fools disregard Me, clad in human form, not knowing My higher Being as the great Lord of all beings.
Shloka: BG 9.12
They are possessed of the deceitful nature of demons and undivine beings, filled with vain hopes, vain actions, and vain...
Shloka: BG 9.13
But the great souls, O Arjuna, partaking of My divine nature, worship Me with a single-minded devotion, knowing Me as th...
Shloka: BG 9.14
Always glorifying Me, striving, firm in their vows, prostrating themselves before Me, they worship Me with steadfast dev...
Shloka: BG 9.15
Others also, sacrificing with the wisdom-sacrifice, worship Me, the All-Faced, as one, distinct, and manifold.
Shloka: BG 9.16
I am Kratu; I am Yajna; I am the offering to the manes; I am the medicinal herbs and all plants; I am the Mantra; I am a...
Shloka: BG 9.17
I am the father of this world, the mother, the dispenser of the fruits of actions, and the grandfather; the one thing to...
Shloka: BG 9.18
I am the goal, the supporter, the Lord, the witness, the abode, the shelter, the friend, the origin, the dissolution, th...
Shloka: BG 9.19
As the sun, I give heat; I withhold and send forth the rain; I am immortality and also death, existence and non-existenc...
Shloka: BG 9.20
The knowers of the three Vedas, the drinkers of Soma, purified of all sins, worshipping Me through sacrifices, pray for ...
Shloka: BG 9.21
They, having enjoyed the vast heaven, enter the world of mortals when their merit is exhausted; thus abiding by the inju...
Shloka: BG 9.22
For those men who worship Me alone, thinking of no one else, for those ever-united, I secure what they have not already ...
Shloka: BG 9.23
Even those devotees who, endowed with faith, worship other gods, worship Me alone, O Arjuna, but by the wrong method.
Shloka: BG 9.24
For I alone am the enjoyer and Lord of all sacrifices; but they do not know Me in reality, and thus they return to this ...
Shloka: BG 9.25
The worshippers of the gods go to them; the ancestor-worshippers go to the manes; the worshippers of the deities who pre...
Shloka: BG 9.26
Whoever offers Me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or a little water, that, so offered devotedly by the pure-min...
Shloka: BG 9.27
Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer in sacrifice, whatever you give, whatever austerity you practice, ...
Shloka: BG 9.28
Thus, you shall be freed from the bonds of actions yielding good and evil fruits; with the mind steadfast in the Yoga of...
Shloka: BG 9.29
I am the same to all beings; there is none hateful or dear to Me; but those who worship Me with devotion are in Me, and ...
Shloka: BG 9.30
Even if the most sinful worships Me, with devotion to no one else, he should indeed be regarded as righteous, for he has...
Shloka: BG 9.31
Soon he becomes righteous and attains eternal peace; O Arjuna, proclaim thou for certain that My devotee never perishes.
Shloka: BG 9.32
For, taking refuge in Me, they who, O Arjuna, may be of a sinful birth—women, Vaisyas, and Sudras—attain the Supreme Goa...
Shloka: BG 9.33
How much more easily, then, do Brahmins and devoted royal saints attain the goal? Having come to this impermanent and un...
Shloka: BG 9.34