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Bhagavad-Gītā 12.2 & 5
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: 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." "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." https://vedy.online/en/bg/12/2/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/12/5/
Bhagavad-Gītā 12.6-7
"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, O son of Pṛthā – for them I am the swift deliverer from the ocean of birth and death." Bhagavad-Gītā 12.6-7
Bhagavad-Gītā 12.8-12
"Just fix your mind upon Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and engage all your intelligence in Me. Thus you will live in Me always, without a doubt." "My dear Arjuna, O winner of wealth, if you cannot fix your mind upon Me without deviation, then follow the regulative principles of bhakti-yoga. In this way develop a desire to attain Me." "If you cannot practice the regulations of bhakti-yoga, then just try to work for Me, because by working for Me you will come to the perfect stage." "If, however, you are unable to work in this consciousness of Me, then try to act giving up all results of your work and try to be self-situated." "If you cannot take to this practice, then engage yourself in the cultivation of knowledge. Better than knowledge, however, is meditation, and better than meditation is renunciation of the fruits of action, for by such renunciation one can attain peace of mind." https://vedy.online/en/bg/12/8/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/12/9/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/12/10/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/12/11/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/12/12/
Bhagavad-Gītā 12.13-14
"One who is not envious but is a kind friend to all living entities, who does not think himself a proprietor and is free from false ego, who is equal in both happiness and distress, who is tolerant, always satisfied, self-controlled, and engaged in devotional service with determination, his mind and intelligence fixed on Me – such a devotee of Mine is very dear to Me." Bhagavad-Gītā 12.13-14
Bhagavad-Gītā 12.15 & 20
"He by whom no one is put into difficulty and who is not disturbed by anyone, who is equipoised in happiness and distress, fear and anxiety, is very dear to Me." "Those who follow this imperishable path of devotional service and who completely engage themselves with faith, making Me the supreme goal, are very, very dear to Me." https://vedy.online/en/bg/12/15/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/12/20/
Bhagavad-Gītā 12.16-17
"My devotee who is not dependent on the ordinary course of activities, who is pure, expert, without cares, free from all pains, and not striving for some result, is very dear to Me." "One who neither rejoices nor grieves, who neither laments nor desires, and who renounces both auspicious and inauspicious things – such a devotee is very dear to Me." https://vedy.online/en/bg/12/16/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/12/17/
Bhagavad-Gītā 12.18-19
"One who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equipoised in honor and dishonor, heat and cold, happiness and distress, fame and infamy, who is always free from contaminating association, always silent and satisfied with anything, who doesn’t care for any residence, who is fixed in knowledge and who is engaged in devotional service – such a person is very dear to Me." Bhagavad-Gītā 12.18-19
Bhagavad-Gītā 13.8-12
"Humility; pridelessness; nonviolence; tolerance; simplicity; approaching a bona fide spiritual master; cleanliness; steadiness; self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification; absence of false ego; the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; detachment; freedom from entanglement with children, wife, home and the rest; even-mindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events; constant and unalloyed devotion to Me; aspiring to live in a solitary place; detachment from the general mass of people; accepting the importance of self-realization; and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth – all these I declare to be knowledge, and besides this whatever there may be is ignorance." Bhagavad-Gītā 13.8-12
Bhagavad-Gītā 13.23 & 13.25 & 13.29
"Yet in this body there is another, a transcendental enjoyer, who is the Lord, the supreme proprietor, who exists as the overseer and permitter, and who is known as the Supersoul." "Some perceive the Supersoul within themselves through meditation, others through the cultivation of knowledge, and still others through working without fruitive desires." "One who sees the Supersoul equally present everywhere, in every living being, does not degrade himself by his mind. Thus he approaches the transcendental destination." https://vedy.online/en/bg/13/23/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/13/25/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/13/29/
Bhagavad-Gītā 14.1-2
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Again I shall declare to you this supreme wisdom, the best of all knowledge, knowing which all the sages have attained the supreme perfection." "By becoming fixed in this knowledge, one can attain to the transcendental nature like My own. Thus established, one is not born at the time of creation or disturbed at the time of dissolution." https://vedy.online/en/bg/14/1/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/14/2/
Bhagavad-Gītā 14.19-20
"When one properly sees that in all activities no other performer is at work than these modes of nature and he knows the Supreme Lord, who is transcendental to all these modes, he attains My spiritual nature." "When the embodied being is able to transcend these three modes associated with the material body, he can become free from birth, death, old age and their distresses and can enjoy nectar even in this life." https://vedy.online/en/bg/14/19/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/14/20/
Bhagavad-Gītā 16.5
"The transcendental qualities are conducive to liberation, whereas the demoniac qualities make for bondage. Do not worry, O son of Pāṇḍu, for you are born with the divine qualities." https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/5/