Verses
Verse topic
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Bhagavad-Gītā 7.16-17
"O best among the Bhāratas, four kinds of pious men begin to render devotional service unto Me – the distressed, the desirer of wealth, the inquisitive, and he who is searching for knowledge of the Absolute." "Of these, the one who is in full knowledge and who is always engaged in pure devotional service is the best. For I am very dear to him, and he is dear to Me." https://vedy.online/en/bg/7/16/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/7/17/
Bhagavad-Gītā 7.18
"All these devotees are undoubtedly magnanimous souls, but he who is situated in knowledge of Me I consider to be just like My own self. Being engaged in My transcendental service, he is sure to attain Me, the highest and most perfect goal." https://vedy.online/en/bg/7/18/
Bhagavad-Gītā 7.28
"Persons who have acted piously in previous lives and in this life and whose sinful actions are completely eradicated are freed from the dualities of delusion, and they engage themselves in My service with determination." https://vedy.online/en/bg/7/28/
Bhagavad-Gītā 7.29-30
"Intelligent persons who are endeavoring for liberation from old age and death take refuge in Me in devotional service. They are actually Brahman because they entirely know everything about transcendental activities." "Those in full consciousness of Me, who know Me, the Supreme Lord, to be the governing principle of the material manifestation, of the demigods, and of all methods of sacrifice, can understand and know Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, even at the time of death." https://vedy.online/en/bg/7/29/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/7/30/
Bhagavad-Gītā 8.14
"For one who always remembers Me without deviation, I am easy to obtain, O son of Pṛthā, because of his constant engagement in devotional service." https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/14/
Bhagavad-Gītā 8.15
"After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogīs in devotion, never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained the highest perfection." https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/15/
Bhagavad-Gītā 8.22
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is greater than all, is attainable by unalloyed devotion. Although He is present in His abode, He is all-pervading, and everything is situated within Him." https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/22/
Bhagavad-Gītā 8.23-27
"O best of the Bhāratas, I shall now explain to you the different times at which, passing away from this world, the yogī does or does not come back." "Those who know the Supreme Brahman attain that Supreme by passing away from the world during the influence of the fiery god, in the light, at an auspicious moment of the day, during the fortnight of the waxing moon, or during the six months when the sun travels in the north." "The mystic who passes away from this world during the smoke, the night, the fortnight of the waning moon, or the six months when the sun passes to the south reaches the moon planet but again comes back." "According to Vedic opinion, there are two ways of passing from this world – one in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back; but when one passes in darkness, he returns." "Although the devotees know these two paths, O Arjuna, they are never bewildered. Therefore be always fixed in devotion." https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/23/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/24/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/25/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/26/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/27/
Bhagavad-Gītā 8.28
"A person who accepts the path of devotional service is not bereft of the results derived from studying the Vedas, performing sacrifices, undergoing austerities, giving charity or pursuing philosophical and fruitive activities. Simply by performing devotional service, he attains all these, and at the end he reaches the supreme eternal abode." https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/28/
Bhagavad-Gītā 9.1-2
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Arjuna, because you are never envious of Me, I shall impart to you this most confidential knowledge and realization, knowing which you shall be relieved of the miseries of material existence." "This knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all secrets. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct perception of the self by realization, it is the perfection of religion. It is everlasting, and it is joyfully performed." https://vedy.online/en/bg/9/1/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/9/2/
Bhagavad-Gītā 9.3
"Those who are not faithful in this devotional service cannot attain Me, O conqueror of enemies. Therefore they return to the path of birth and death in this material world." https://vedy.online/en/bg/9/3/
Bhagavad-Gītā 9.12-15
"Those who are thus bewildered are attracted by demonic and atheistic views. In that deluded condition, their hopes for liberation, their fruitive activities, and their culture of knowledge are all defeated." "O son of Pṛthā, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible." "Always chanting My glories, endeavoring with great determination, bowing down before Me, these great souls perpetually worship Me with devotion." "Others, who engage in sacrifice by the cultivation of knowledge, worship the Supreme Lord as the one without a second, as diverse in many, and in the universal form." https://vedy.online/en/bg/9/12/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/9/13/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/9/14/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/9/15/