Krishna:-

1. I will tell thee a supreme mystery, because thy soul has faith. It
is vision and wisdom and when known thou shalt be free from sin.
2. It is the supreme mystery and wisdom and the purification
supreme. Seen in a wonder of vision, it is a path of righteousness
very easy to follow, leading to the highest End.
3. But those who have no faith is this truth, come not unto me: they
return to the cycles of life in death.
4. All this visible universe comes from my invisible being. All
beings have their rest in me, but I have not my rest in them.
5. And in truth they rest not in me: consider my sacred mystery. I
am the source of all beings. I support them all, but I rest not in
them.
6. Even as the mighty winds rest in the vastness of the ethereal
space, all beings have their rest in me. Know thou this truth.
7. At the end of the night of time all things return to my nature; and
when the new day of time begins I bring them again into light.
8. Thus through my nature I bring forth all creation and this rolls
round in the circle of time.
9. But I am not bound by this vast work of creation. I am and I
watch the drama of works.
10. I watch and in its work of creation nature brings forth all that
moves and moves not: and thus the revolutions of the world go
round.
11. But the fools of the world know not me when they see me in
my own human body. They know not my Spirit supreme, the
infinite God of this all.
12. Their hope is in vain, their works are in vain, their learning is
vain, their thoughts are vain. They fall down to the nature of
demons, towards the darkness of delusion of hell.
13. But there are some great souls who know me: their refuge is
my own divine nature. They love me with a oneness of love: know
that I am the source of all.
14. They praise me with devotion, they praise me for ever and ever.
Their vows are strong; their harmony is ever one; and they worship
me with their love.
15. Others worship me, and work for me, with the sacrifice of
spiritual vision. They worship me as one and as many, because
they see that all in me.
16. For I am the sacrifice and the offering, the sacred gift and the
sacred plant. I am the holy words, the holy food, the holy fire, and
the offering that is made in fire.
17. I am the Father of this universe, and even the source of the
Father. I am the Mother of this universe, and the creator of all. I am
the Highest to be known, the path of purification, the holy OM, the
three Vedas.
18. I am the Way, and the Master who watches in silence; thy
friend and thy shelter and thy abode of peace. I am the beginning
and the middle and the end of all things: their seed of Eternity,
their Treasure supreme.
19. The heat of the sun comes from me, and I send and withhold
the rain. I am life immortal and death; I am what is and what is not.
20. There are men who know the Three Vedas, who drink the
Soma, who are pure from sin. They worship and pray for heaven.
They reach indeed the heaven of Indra, the king of the Gods, and
there they enjoy royal pleasures.
21. They enjoy that vast world of heaven, but the reward of their
work comes to an end: they return to the world of death. They
follow the worlds of the Three Vedas, they lust for pleasures that
pass away: in truth they attain pleasures that pass away.
22. But to those who adore me with a pure oneness of soul, to
those who are ever in harmony, I increase what they have and I
give them what they have not.
23. Even those who in faith worship other gods, because of their
love they worship me, although not in right way.
24. For I accept every sacrifice, and I am their Lord Supreme. But
they know not my pure Being, and because of this they fall.
25. For those who worship the gods go to the gods, and those who
worship the fathers go to the fathers. Those who worship the spirits
go to the lower spirits; but those who worship me come unto me.
26. He who offers to me with devotion only a leaf, or a flower, or a
fruit, or even a little water, this I accept from that yearning soul,
because with a pure heart it was offered with love.
27. Whatever you do, or eat, or give, or offer in adoration, let it be
an offering to me; and whatever you suffer, suffer it for me.
28. Thus thou shalt be free from the bonds of karma which yield
fruits that are evil and good; and with thy soul one in renunciation
thou shalt be free and come to me.
29. 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.
30. For even if the greatest sinner worship me with all his soul, he
must be considered righteous, because of his righteous will.
31. And he shall soon become pure and reach everlasting peace,
that he who loves me shall not punish.
32. For all those who come to me for shelter, however weak or
humble or sinful they may be—women or vaisyas or sudras—they
all reach the path supreme.
33. How much more the holy Brahamins and the royal saints who
love me! Having come to this world of sorrow, which is transient,
love thou me.
34. Give me thy mind and give me thy heart, give me thy offerings
and thy adoration; and thus with thy soul in harmony, and making
me thy goal supreme, thou shalt in truth come to me.
END OF PART NINE.