Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 12: The Yoga of Devotion

All 20 verses of Chapter 12 of the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit, with English translation, per-word meanings, and Adi Shankara's commentary.

• Verse 12.1 — Those devotees who, always devout, thus contemplate Thee, and those also who…
• Verse 12.2 — Those who, fixing their thought on Me, contemplate Me, always devout, endued with supreme…
• Verse 12.3 — Those who ever contemplate the Imperishable, the Indefinable, the Unmanifest, the…
• Verse 12.4 — Those who ever contemplate the Imperishable, the Indefinable, the Unmanifest, the…
• Verse 12.5 — Greater is their trouble whose thoughts are set on the Unmanifest; for, the Goal, the…
• Verse 12.6 — But those who worship Me, renouncing all actions in Me, regarding Me Supreme, meditating…
• Verse 12.7 — But those who worship Me, renouncing all actions in Me, regarding Me Supreme, meditating…
• Verse 12.8 — Fix thy mind in Me exclusively; apply thy reason to Me. Thou shalt no doubt live in Me…
• Verse 12.9 — If thou art unable to fix thy thought steadily on Me, then by Yoga of constant practice…
• Verse 12.10 — (If) thou art not equal to practice either, then be thou intent on (doing) actions for My…
• Verse 12.11 — If thou art unable to do even this, then refuged in devotion to Me, do thou abandon the…
• Verse 12.12 — Better indeed is knowledge than practice; than knowledge is meditation more esteemed…
• Verse 12.13 — He who hates no single being, who is friendly and compassionate to all, who is free from…
• Verse 12.14 — He who hates no single being, who is friendly and compassionate to all, who is free from…
• Verse 12.15 — He by whom the world is not afflicted and who is not afflicted by the world, who is free…
• Verse 12.16 — He who is free from wants, who is pure, clever, unconcerned, untroubled, renouncing all…
• Verse 12.17 — He who neither rejoices, nor hates, nor grieves, nor desires, renouncing good and evil…
• Verse 12.18 — He who is the same to foe and friend, and also in honor and dishonor: who is the same in…
• Verse 12.19 — He who is the same to foe and friend, and also in honor and dishonor: who is the same in…
• Verse 12.20 — They, verily, who follow this immortal Law described above, endued with faith, looking up…