Divine Grace

Bhakti is the path to salvation. Souls achieve salvation through God's grace.

The Self is not attained through eloquent teaching, not through sharp intellect, not through much scriptural learning. The one whom this Self chooses—by that one alone is it reached. To that person, the Self reveals its own nature.

Wherever the Lord of yoga, Krishna, and wherever Partha, the archer, are together — there, I am certain, dwell prosperity, victory, abundance, and sound counsel.

Arjuna said: My delusion is destroyed, and I have regained remembrance by Your grace, O Achyuta. I stand firm, my doubts gone; I shall do Your word.

Abandoning all duties, take refuge in Me alone; I shall free you from all sins — grieve not.

Smaller than the smallest, greater than the greatest — the Self is hidden in the heart of every creature. Free from desire, one sees the glory of the Self by the grace of the Creator.

Seek refuge in Him alone with your whole being, O Bharata; by His grace you shall attain supreme peace and the eternal abode.

With your consciousness fixed in Me, you shall, by My grace, cross all dangers and difficulties; but if from ego you will not hear Me, you shall perish.

Even while performing all actions always, one who takes refuge in Me attains by My grace the eternal, imperishable abode.

For those whose minds are absorbed in me, I swiftly become their deliverer from the ocean of death and rebirth, O Partha.

But through undivided devotion, O Arjuna, I can be known in truth, seen in this way, and even entered into, O scorcher of foes.

By the power of austerity and by the grace of God, the wise Shvetashvatara then proclaimed this supreme purifying wisdom — duly honoured by the assembly of sages — to those who had gone beyond all stages of life.

This Self cannot be attained by discourse, nor by intellect, nor by much learning. It is attained by the one whom It chooses — to that person the Self reveals Its own form.

Not through the Vedas, nor through austerity, nor through charity, nor through worship can I be seen as you have just seen me.

But you cannot behold Me with these your own eyes alone; I give you the divine eye — behold My sovereign yoga.

Out of compassion for them alone, dwelling within their own being, I destroy the darkness born of ignorance with the shining lamp of knowledge.

To those who are ever steadfastly united with Me and worship Me with love, I grant that yoga of understanding by which they come to Me.

Swiftly he becomes a righteous soul and attains abiding peace; O son of Kuntī, declare with certainty that My devotee is never lost.

For those persons who worship Me with undivided attention, who are ever steadfastly united with Me, I bear the burden of their well-being and preserve what they already possess.

This divine illusion of Mine, woven of the three qualities, is exceedingly hard to cross over. Yet those who take refuge in Me alone — they transcend this Maya.