I am the Self, dwelling in the heart of all beings, and the beginning, the middle, and the end of all that lives as well.
Although I am unmanifest, the unwise think that I am that form of my lower nature which is seen by mortal eyes: they know not my higher nature, imperishable and unsurpassed.
He will soon become pure and reach everlasting peace. For be aware, Arjuna, that he who loves me shall not perish.
I am the same to all beings, and my love is ever the same; but those who worship me with devotion, they are in me and I am in them.
Of all knowledge, I am the knowledge of the Soul. Of the many paths of speech, I am the one that leads to Truth.
Not by study of the Vedas, nor by an austere life, nor through gift-giving, nor through ritual offerings can I be seen in such a way as you have seen me [i.e., directly within].
Only by undistracted love can men see me, and know me, and enter into me.
Give me your mind and give me your heart, give me your offerings and your adoration; and thus with your soul in harmony, and making me your goal supreme, you will in truth come to me.
He who offers to me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or even a little water, that offering of devotion I accept from him whose self is pure.
Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer, whatever you give, whatever austerities you perform, Arjuna, do that as an offering to me.
Love spontaneously gives itself in endless gifts. But those gifts lose their fullest significance if through them we do not reach that love, which is the giver.
