All these devotees are indeed magnanimous souls, but he who knows Me, I consider as living in Me. Absorbed in My absolute service, he comes to Me. After many rebirths, when he knows that I am all that is, the Cause of all causes, the man of true knowledge surrenders to Me. Rare is such a great soul.

Those whose minds are distorted by material desires dedicate themselves to the heavenly beings. They follow, each according to their nature, the various rites proper to their worship.

I dwell in the heart of each one as the Supreme Soul. And as soon as a man desires to worship the celestial beings, it is I who strengthens his faith and thus enables him to devote himself to the celestial being he has chosen.

Full of this faith, he asks the celestial being for certain favours, and sees his desires fulfilled. But in reality, these favours come from Me alone. Men of brief intelligence worship the celestial beings; ephemeral and limited are the fruits of their worship. Whoever devotes himself to the celestial beings reaches their planets, when My devotees, however, reach My planet, the supreme. Men without intelligence, not knowing Me, believe that I borrow this Form, this personality. Their ignorance prevents them from knowing My supreme and unchanging nature.

I never show Myself to the foolish or the stupid, because of My internal power, I am veiled for them. This misguided world does not know Me, the Unborn, the Imperishable.

Because I am God, the Supreme Person, I know everything about the past, the present and the future. I also know all beings, but no one knows Me.

All beings are born in illusion, tossed about by the dualities of desire and aversion. But men free from these dualities, the fruits of illusion, men who in their past lives as well as in this life were virtuous, men in whom sin has ended, these serve Me with determination.

Through devotional service, they take refuge in Me, those intelligent men who strive to be free from old age and death. Verily, they are at the spiritual level. They possess the entire knowledge of acts, spiritual or material.

He who knows Me as the Supreme Lord, the very principle of material manifestation, the source of celestial beings and the Master of all sacrifices, can, with a fixed mind, even at the moment of death, grasp Me and know Me again.