Chapter 9 Sloka 2: This is the kingly science, the kingly secret, the supreme purifier, realisable by directintuitional knowledge, according to righteousness, very easy to perform and imperishable.

Chapter 9 Sloka 3: Those who have no faith in this Dharma (knowledge of the Self), O Parantapa (Arjuna),return to the path of this world of death without attaining Me!

Chapter 9 Sloka 4: All this world is pervaded by Me in My unmanifest aspect; all beings exist in Me, but I donot dwell in them.

Chapter 9 Sloka 5: Nor do beings exist in Me (in reality): behold My divine Yoga, supporting all beings, butnot dwelling in them, is My Self, the efficient cause of beings.

Chapter 9 Sloka 6: As the mighty wind, moving everywhere, rests always in the ether, even so, know thou that all beings rest in Me.

Chapter 9 Sloka 7: All beings, O Arjuna, enter into My Nature at the end of a Kalpa; I send them forth againat the beginning of (the next) Kalpa!

Chapter 9 Sloka 8: Animating My Nature, I again and again send forth all this multitude of beings, helpless by the force of Nature.

Chapter 9 Sloka 9: These actions do not bind Me, O Arjuna, sitting like one indifferent, unattached to thoseacts!

Chapter 9 Sloka 10: Under Me as supervisor, Nature produces the moving and the unmoving; because of this, O Arjuna, the world revolves!

Chapter 9 Sloka 12: Of vain hopes, of vain actions, of vain knowledge and senseless, they verily are possessed of the deceitful nature of demons and undivine beings.

Chapter 9 Sloka 13: But the great souls, O Arjuna, partaking of My divine nature, worship Me with a single mind (with the mind devoted to nothing else), knowing Me as the imperishable source of beings!

Chapter 9 Sloka 14: Always glorifying Me, striving, firm in vows, prostrating before Me, they worship Mewith devotion, ever steadfast.

Chapter 9 Sloka 15: Others also, sacrificing with the wisdom-sacrifice, worship Me, the all-faced, as one, asdistinct, and as manifold.

Chapter 9 Sloka 16: I am the Kratu; I am the Yajna; I am the offering (food) to the manes; I am the medicinal herb and all the plants; I am the Mantra; I am also the ghee or melted butter; I am the fire; I am theoblation.

Chapter 9 Sloka 18: I am the goal, the support, the Lord, the witness, the abode, the shelter, the friend, theorigin, the dissolution, the foundation, the treasure-house and the imperishable seed

Chapter 9 Sloka 19: (As the sun) I give heat; I withhold and send forth the rain; I am immortality and alsodeath, existence and non-existence, O Arjuna!