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acts. (9.09)
The divine kinetic energy (Maya) çø with the help of material Nature çø creates all animate and
inanimate objects under My supervision, and thus the creation keeps on going, O Arjuna. (See also 14.03)
(9.10)
WAYS OF THE WISE, AND OF THE IGNORANT ARE DIFFERENT
The ignorant persons despise Me when I appear in human form, because they do not know My
transcendental nature as the great Lord of all beings, and take Me for an ordinary human being. They are
unable to recognize Me, because they have false hopes, false actions, and false knowledge; and possess
delusive qualities of fiends and demons. (9.11-12)
But great souls, O Arjuna, who possess divine qualities (See 16.01-03) know Me as immutable; as the
material and efficient cause of creation, and worship Me single-mindedly with loving devotion. (9.13)
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Persons of firm resolve worship Me with ever-steadfast devotion by always singing My glories, striving
to attain Me, and prostrating before Me with devotion. (9.14)
Some worship Me by acquiring the knowledge of God. Others worship the infinite as the One in all (or
non-dual), as the master of all (or dual), and in various other ways. (9.15)
EVERYTHING IS A MANIFESTATION
OF THE ABSOLUTE
I am the ritual, I am the sacrifice, I am the offering, I am the herb, I am the mantra, I am the clarified
butter, I am the fire, and I am the oblation. (See also 4.24). I am the supporter of the universe, the father,
the mother, and the grandfather. I am the object of knowledge, the sacred syllable OM, and the Vedas. I
am the goal, the supporter, the Lord, the witness, the abode, the refuge, the friend, the origin, the
dissolution, the foundation, the substratum, and the immutable seed. (See also 7.10 and 10.39) (9.16-18)
I give heat, I send as well as withhold the rain. I am immortality as well as death, I am also both the
eternal Absolute and the temporal, O Arjuna. (The Supreme Being has become everything, See also
13.12) (9.19)
ATTAIN SALVATION BY
DEVOTIONAL LOVE
The doers of the rituals prescribed in the Vedas, the drinkers of the nectar of devotion, and whose sins are
cleansed, worship Me by doing good deeds for gaining heaven. As a result of their meritorious deeds they
go to heaven and enjoy celestial sense pleasures. (9.20)
They return to the mortal world çø after enjoying the wide world of heavenly pleasures çø upon
exhaustion of the fruits of their good Karma. Thus following the injunctions of the Vedas, persons
working for the fruit of their actions take repeated birth and death. (See also 8.25) (9.21)
I personally take care of both spiritual and material welfare of those ever-steadfast devotees who
always remember and adore Me with single-minded contemplation. (9.22)
O Arjuna, even those devotees who worship the deities with faith, they also worship Me, but in an
improper way. (9.23)
Because I, the Supreme Being, alone am the enjoyer of all sacrificial services, and Lord of the universe.
But people do not know My true transcendental nature. Therefore, they fall into the repeated cycles of
birth and death. (9.24)
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Worshippers of the celestial controllers go to the celestial controllers, the worshippers of the ancestors go
to the ancestors, and the worshippers of the ghosts go to the ghosts, but My devotees come to Me, and are
not born again. (See also 8.16) (9.25)
LORD ACCEPTS AND EATS THE OFFERING OF LOVE AND DEVOTION
Whosoever offers Me a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or water with devotion; I accept and eat the offering
of devotion by the pure-hearted. (9.26)
O Arjuna, whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer as oblation to the sacred fire,
whatever charity you give, whatever austerity you perform, do all that as an offering unto Me. (See
also 12.10, 18.46) (9.27)
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