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Bhagavad Gita · 9.29 · Yoga through the King of Sciences·29 of 34

समोऽहं सर्वभूतेषु न मे द्वेष्योऽस्ति न प्रियःये भजन्ति तु मां भक्त्या मयि ते तेषु चाप्यहम्

samo ’haṁ sarva-bhūteṣhu na me dveṣhyo ’sti na

priyaḥ ye bhajanti tu māṁ bhaktyā mayi te teṣhu chāpyaham

Sanskrit recitation

Offer what you have · 9.26–9.34 · Teaching

Translation

I am the same to all beings; there is none hateful or dear to Me; but those who worship Me with devotion are in Me, and I am also in them.

Meaning

The Lord has an even outlook towards all. He regards all living beings alike. None He has condemned, none has He favoured. He is the enemy of none. He is the partial lover of none. He does not favour some and frown on others. The egoistic man only has created a wide gulf between himself and the Supreme Being by his wrong attitude. The Lord is closer to him that his own breath, nearer than his hands and feet.I am like fire. Just as fire removes cold from those who draw near it but does not remove the cold from those who keep away from it, even so I bestow My grace on My devotees, but not owing to any sort of attachment on My part. Just as the light of the sun, though pervading everywhere, is reflected only in a clean mirror but not in a pot, so also I, the Supreme Lord, present everywhere, manifest Myself only in those persons from whose minds all kinds of impurities (which have accumulated there on account of ignorance) have been removed by their devotion.The sun has neither attachment for the mirror nor hatred for the pot. The Kalpavriksha has neither hatred nor love for people. It bestows the desired objects only on those who go near it. (Cf.VII.17XII.14and20)Now hear the glory of devotion to Me.

After Swami Sivananda

Offer what you have· 9.26–9.34

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

Word-by-word
me
to me
na
not
te
such persons
tu
but
ye
who
api
also
cha
and
aham
I
asti
is
mayi
reside in me
mām
me
samaḥ
equally disposed
teṣhu
in them
bhajanti
worship with love
bhaktyā
with devotion
priyaḥ
dear
dveṣhyaḥ
inimical
sarva-bhūteṣhu
to all living beings

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