Note: This English article is an explanatory translation, not just word-to-word meaning.
1. Do your duty to the best of your ability, O Arjuna, with your mind attached to the Lord. Give up worry for and selfish attachment to the results. Remain calm in both success and failure, because one has no control over the results. The calmness of mind is the fruit of Nishkāma-Karma-yoga. (2.48)
2. All works are done by the forces (or Gunas) of Nature. Due to ignorance, people assume themselves to be the doer and suffer from karmic bondage. We all are just a divine instrument and should help each other. (3.27)
3. As a blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge removes all our past Karma and demonic qualities. Spiritual knowledge is the best purifier. It opens up the gates of Nirvana for us. (4.37)
4. Samnyāsa or giving up the feeling of doer-ship and ownership (Kartā and Bhoktā), is difficult to attain without Nishkām-Karma-Yoga (selfless service, Sevā). We are just a trustee of God-given wealth. Sevā gradually leads to Self-knowledge, faith, deep devotion, and Mukti. (5.06)
5. One who sees Me everywhere and in everything, and sees everything in Me, is not away from Me, and I am not away from him. Such a person loves all and hates no one. (6.30)
6. After many births the wise ones surrender to My will by realizing that everything is, indeed, another form of Brahman. The One has become all these. Such a great soul is very rare. (7.19)
7. Always remember Me before starting any work and do your duty. Thus you shall certainly remember Me at the time of death and come to Me if your mind and intellect are ever focused on Me. (8.07)
8. Whosoever offers Me a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or water with faith and devotion -- even mentally; I accept and eat the offering of devotion by the faithful. (9.26)
9. Creator and Lord of all, God of gods, the Supreme person, and Lord of the universe, only You know Yourself. No one can know God, the Source of creation. (10.15)
10. The devotee who offers all his or her work as a worship to Me, who has detached-attachment or no deep attachment to anything, who is My devotee and depends on Me, and who is free from enmity toward any creature, reaches Me. (11.55)
11. Lord Krishna said: I consider the best yogis to be those devotees who worship with supreme faith by fixing their mind on My personal form. (12.02)
12. Dislike for sensual pleasures, absence of “I and my”, thinking about pain and suffering in birth, old age, disease and death leads to Self-knowledge and Nirvana. This world is called the house of misery. (13.08)
13. One who is always God-conscious and depends on My will and, remains calm in pain and pleasure, censure and praise, to whom a clod, a stone, and gold are alike, and to whom the dear and the unfriendly are alike and is full of devotion, attains Me. (14.24)
14. Moksha is attained by those who are free from pride, desires and Moha (delusion), who have controlled the evil of attachment, who is always God conscious and remains calm in gain and loss, victory and defeat. (15.05)
15. Lust (for wealth, power, and sensual pleasures), anger, and greed are the three gates of hell leading to the downfall (or reincarnation) of the individual soul. Uncontrolled sensual desire is the root of all evils and misery. Therefore, one must learn to give up these three. (16.21)
16. The faith of each is according to one’s own nature or Samskāra. One is known by one’s faith. One can become whatever one wants to be (if he constantly thinks about his goal with a burning desire and deep faith in God). All we are is the result of our thoughts. (17.03)
17. Sensual pleasures, appear as nectar in the beginning but become poison in the end, are in the mode of passion. One should not get too much attached to sense pleasures. (18.38)
18. One who shall study and help propagate this supreme secret philosophy to My devotees, shall be doing the highest devotional service (Bhakti) to Me, shall be very dear to Me and shall certainly come to Me. The gift of knowledge is the best gift. (18.68-69)
Source: Gita Society
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