Chapter 12

Bhakti (भक्ति)

Who is dearest. The qualities of the one whose mind has been given.

Summary

Chapter 12 is bhakti, and it is the chapter the Nārada (नारद) sūtras (सूत्र) sit beside. Who is better, the one who worships the manifest or the one who worships the unmanifest? The answer is a ladder of practices, from fixing the mind, down to renouncing the fruit of action. The second half says who is dear. The list is a description of that person, not a set of tasks added on top.

नेपालीमा

अध्याय १२ भक्ति हो, र नारद सूत्र यसैको छेउमा बस्छन्। व्यक्त पुज्ने र अव्यक्त पुज्नेमा को श्रेष्ठ? जवाफ अभ्यासको सिँढी हो, मन राख्नेदेखि कर्मफल त्याग्नेसम्म। दोस्रो भागले को प्यारो हो भन्छ। सूची त्यस व्यक्तिको वर्णन हो, माथि थपिने कामको तालिका होइन।

1–12 Arjuna (अर्जुन), श्रीभगवान् Śrī Bhagavān · Which worship, and the ladder

Summary

Which worship, and the ladder. Worshippers of the manifest and worshippers of the unmanifest are compared. The unmanifest is harder for the embodied. Fix the mind on him. If you cannot, seek to reach him by practice. If you cannot, act for him. If you cannot, renounce the fruit. Knowledge is better than practice, meditation than knowledge, relinquishing the fruit than meditation. The ladder is the section.

नेपालीमा

कुन पूजा, र सिँढी। व्यक्तका पुजारी र अव्यक्तका पुजारीको तुलना गरिन्छ। देहधारीका लागि अव्यक्त गाह्रो छ। मन उहाँमा राख। नसके अभ्यासले उहाँकहाँ पुग्न खोज। त्यो पनि नसके उहाँका लागि कर्म गर। त्यो पनि नसके फल त्याग गर। अभ्यासभन्दा ज्ञान राम्रो, ज्ञानभन्दा ध्यान, ध्यानभन्दा फल त्याग। यो सिँढी नै खण्ड हो।

12.1Arjuna (अर्जुन) said: Those devotees, always yoked, who thus worship you, and those also who worship the imperishable unmanifest — of them, which are the best knowers of yoga?12.2Those who set the mind on me and worship me, ever yoked, I hold as the best.12.3But those who worship the imperishable, the one that cannot be pointed out, the unmanifest, present everywhere, unthinkable, set like a peak, unmoving, fixed, are the people 12.4 follows to the end.12.4Having drawn in the whole host of the senses, even-minded everywhere, delighting in the welfare of all beings, they reach me alone.12.5Greater is the toil of those whose mind clings to the unmanifest, for the unmanifest goal is reached with pain by those who have a body.12.6Those who lay all actions down in me, each of them holding me as highest, and who worship me by a yoga with no other object, meditating, are the people 12.7 says he lifts.12.7For them I become, before long, the one who lifts them out of the ocean of death and of the wandering, Pārtha (पार्थ) — for those whose mind has been placed in me.12.8Set the mind on me alone. Settle the intellect in me. You will dwell in me.12.9If you are not able to fix the mind steadily in me, then by the yoga of practice seek to reach me, Dhanañjaya (धनञ्जय).12.10If you are unable even for practice, be one whose highest is action for me; even doing actions for my sake, you will reach the attainment.12.11If you are unable to do even this, then, taking refuge in my yoga, give up the fruit of every action, with the self held in check.12.12Knowledge is better than practice; meditation stands above knowledge; the giving up of the fruit of action stands above meditation; and right after that giving up comes peace.QuizFive questions on Which worship, and the ladder.

13–20 श्रीभगवान् Śrī Bhagavān · Who is dear

Summary

Who is dear. Not hating any being, friendly and compassionate, without a mine and without an I, the same in pain and pleasure. Not agitating the world and not agitated by it. Equal to foe and friend, honour and dishonour. Those who hold this nectar of dharma, with faith, taking him as the supreme, are exceedingly dear. The section is a portrait.

नेपालीमा

को प्यारो हुन्छ। जसले कुनै प्राणीलाई घृणा गर्दैन, जो मित्र र करुणामय छ, जसमा म र मेरो भन्ने भाव छैन, जो सुख र दुःखमा समान छ; जसले लोकलाई हल्लाउँदैन र जसलाई लोकले हल्लाउँदैन; जो शत्रु र मित्र, मान र अपमानमा समान छ। उहाँलाई परम मानेर श्रद्धासहित यो धर्मको अमृत धारण गर्नेहरू अति प्यारा हुन्छन्। यो खण्ड एउटा चित्र हो।

12.13He who hates no being, who is friendly and compassionate, is dear to me.12.14The yogin who is always content, whose self is held, whose resolve is firm, whose mind and understanding are offered in me — he, my devotee, is dear to me.12.15He from whom the world does not shrink, and who does not shrink from the world, freed from joy, resentment, fear, and agitation — he too is dear to me.12.16He expects nothing, he is clean and able, he sits apart, his anguish gone, he has given up every undertaking — that devotee of mine is dear to me.12.17Who does not rejoice, does not hate, does not grieve, does not long, who has given up the good and the not-good, and who has devotion — he is dear to me.12.18The same toward enemy and friend, and so also in honor and disgrace, the same in cold and heat, joy and sorrow, left free of clinging — that is the man 12.19 calls dear.12.19The silent man for whom blame and praise are equal, content with whatever comes, homeless, of steady mind, possessing devotion — that man is dear to me.12.20Those who take up this deathless dharma as it has been said, trusting, holding me as supreme — those devotees are exceedingly dear to me.QuizFive questions on Who is dear.