|| The glory of Devotion practiced disinterestedly - 1 || Whosoever offers Me with love a leaf , a flower , a fruit or even water , I appear in person before that selfless devotee of sinless mind , and delightfully partake of that article offered by him with love { 9 / 26 } . When a devotee offers Me a fruit of any tree out of unbounded love and joy , then I clasp it with both hands and swallow it , stalk and all . If he offers Me a flower as a token of his devotion and love , I should smell it , but I thrust it into My mouth and relish it , and why talk of a flower , even if a leaf , fresh or dry of any tree , is offered to Me out of deepest love , I enjoy it with as much pleasure as a hungry person experiences with a drink of nectar . But if , perchance , it happens that one does not find even a leaf , there should be no difficulty in getting water at any place . It can be had for nothing anywhere , and if he procures and offers it to Me as his all , I appreciate it as though he has built for Me big temples , grander than Vaikuntha or offered to Me gems more sparkling than the Kaustubha , or has made for Me abundant beds as fascinating as the Milky Ocean , or he has burnt before Me incense - sticks of sandalwood and Camphor as big as the Meru Mountain , or made for Me a row of wick - lamps as lustrous as the sun , or has provided Me with vehicles like Garuda , gardens of wish - yielding trees or herds of wish - yielding cows ; or has served Me dainties more delicious than nectar . I am so pleased with a drop of water offered to Me by My devotees what more need I say , O Arjuna ? I recognize only devotion and make no distinction between high and low . I prize beyond all thing , only devotion and love from My devotee . Arjuna , whatever you do , whatever you eat , whatever you offer as oblation to the sacred fire , whatever you bestow as a gift , whatever you do by way of penance , do that as an offering to Me { 9 / 27 } . Whatever things that you do in the natural course of your life , you offer them to Me with love . But do not keep any remembrance of whatever you do and so cleansing your deeds thus , you dedicate them to Me . With your mind thus established in the Yoga of renunciation { offering of all actions to Me } , you will be freed from the bondage of action in the shape of good and evil results ; thus freed from them , you will attain Me . Just as the seed roasted in fire does not sprout , so all actions dedicated to Me do not fructify and bind . Otherwise if an action has to bear fruit in the form of pleasure and pain , then one has to take recourse to a body to expiate it . If that action is surrendered to Me , he escapes rebirth and along with it the trials and tribulations of life . Therefore , lest you should lose time by deferring the action till the morrow , I have disclosed to you this simple way of renunciation . You should not , therefore , fall into this bondage to the body , or immerse yourself in the sea of pleasure and pain , but by resorting to this path merge yourself in My blissful being . I am equally present in all beings ; there is none hateful or dear to Me . They , however , who devoutly worship Me abide in Me ; and I too stand revealed to them { 9 / 29 } . If you ask Me what I am , I am ever the same to all beings , without distinction between My own and anther’s devotee , but those who know Me thus , breaking the bond of egoism and worship Me wholeheartedly in thought and deed , they do not remain in their bodies , even though they appear to do so . But they abide in My being , and I abide in them . Just as an expanding banyan tree is contained in its small seed , which has itself sprung from a banyan tree , that is the bond between us . We differ outwardly in name only , but in truth , if we consider their inner state , they and I are one . Their assumption of a body is as empty and meaningless , as the wearing of borrowed ornaments by a lady . Their body lasts till the end of their life span , as a flower deprived of its fragrance by a breeze remains on its stalk . With his self - sense being entirely merged in My being , he has entered My Divine eternal Self . || OM TAT SAT ||
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