Chapter 12: Bhakti-yoga – Practice and Attainment of Devotion: Verse 10
अभ्यासेऽप्यसमर्थोऽसि मत्कर्मपरमो भव ।
मदर्थमपि कर्माणि कुर्वन्सिद्धिमवाप्स्यसि ॥
abhyāse’py-asamartho’si
mat-karma-paramo bhava
mad-artham-api karmāṇi
kurvan-siddhim-avāpsyasi – 12.10
If you are unable even to take to any practice, consider your supreme aim is to do My work. Doing all actions for the sake of Me (the Supreme), you will attain fulfilment.
Chapter 12: Bhakti-yoga – Practice and Attainment of Devotion - Verse 10
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Krishna gives a step by step procedure for the devotee and devotional pursuit. This chapter is quite short. Here he has covered the entire devotional sādhanā beautifully in all its essential aspects.
One may not even be able to take to any devotional practice. For, it will need additional time, effort and arrangements. Moreover, one must have a taste for it. What if all this is lacking?
Krishna does not force anything on anyone. It does not matter, says he. Still the benefits of spirituality can be had without any diminution.
Krishna states that whatever activities you are doing, make them a full-fold offering to the Supreme. No extra time or effort comes in here. All activities being within the scheme of Nature, feel they are all for the sake of the Supreme, the wielder of Nature. That will lead to spiritual perfection.
