As the conchshells announcing the beginning of a battle between two great families are being heard, Arjuna is suddenly taken by a feeling of helplessness at the thought that he will have, without doubt, to combat relatives in order to restore justice and serenity. In the uproar, he solicits advice from his friend Krishna -the chariot driver- that could help him overcoming his anxiety.
Thus begins the epic story known as the Bhagavad-Gîtâ where Krishna dispels Arjuna's fears and enjoins him to not only fight but also to receive a singular teaching.
The battlefield of Kurukshetra then becomes the backdrop of a spiritual allegory where insightful guidance is presented to us for acquiring bliss and immutability.
Of the worshippers, who thus, constantly devoted, meditate on you, and those who meditate on the unperceived and indestructible, which best know devotion?
Those who being constantly devoted, and possessed of the highest faith, worship me with a mind fixed on me, are deemed by me to be the most devoted.
But those, who, restraining the whole group of the senses, and with a mind at all times equable, meditate on the indescribable, indestructible, unperceived principle which is all-pervading, unthinkable, indifferent, immovable, and constant—they, intent on the good of all beings, necessarily attain to me.
For those whose minds are attached to the unperceived, the trouble is much greater. Because the unperceived goal is obtained by embodied beings only with great difficulty.
As to those, O son of Pritha, who, dedicating all their actions to me, and holding me as their highest goal, worship me, meditating on me with a devotion towards none besides me and whose minds are fixed on me, I, without delay come forward as their deliverer from the ocean of this world of death.
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