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THE NATURALNESS OF BHAKTI-YOGA
AND ITS CENTRAL SECRET
“Those who with constant attention always worship You, and those who worship the Undifferentiated, the Absolute-of these which are the greater Yogins ?”—Arjuna asked of Sri Krishna. The answer was :—"Those who concentrating their mind on Me worship Me with eternal constancy, and are endowed with the highest faith—they are My best worshippers, they are the greatest Yogins. Those that worship the Absolute, the Indescribable, the Undifferentiated, the Omnipresent, the Unthinkable, the All-comprehending, the Immovable, and the Eternal, by controlling the play of their organs and having the conviction of sameness with regard to all things, they also, being engaged in doing good to all beings, come to Me alone. But to those whose minds have been devoted to the unmanifested Absolute, the difficulty of the struggle along the way is much greater, for it is indeed with great difficulty that the path of the unmanifested Absolute is trodden by any embodied being. Those who, having offered up all their work unto Me, with entire reliance on Me, meditate on Me and worship Me without any attachment to anything else—them I soon lift up from the ocean of everrecurring births and deaths, as their mind is wholly attached to Me." Jnana-Yoga and Bhakti-Yoga are
