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live in action! Labour! Make thine acts Thy piety, casting all self
aside, Contemning gain and merit equable In good or evil:
equability Is Yog, is piety! Yet, the right act Is less, far less,
than the right-thinking mind. Seek refuge in thy soul; have there
thy heaven! Scorn them that follow virtue for her gifts! The mind of
pure devotion- even here- Casts equally aside good deeds and bad,
Passing above them.
Unto pure devotion Devote thyself: with
perfect meditation Comes perfect act, and the right hearted
rise-
More certainly because they seek no gain- Forth from the bands
of body, step by step, To highest seats of bliss. When thy firm soul
Hath shaken off those tangled oracles Which ignorantly guide, then
shall it soar To high neglect of what's denied or said, This
way or that way, in doctrinal writ.
Troubled no longer by the priestly lore,
Safe shall it live, and sure; steadfastly bent On meditation. This
is Yog- and Peace! Arjuna. What is his mark who hath that steadfast
heart, Confirmed in holy meditation? How Know we his speech, Kesava?
Sits he, moves he Like other men? Krishna.
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