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The Bhagavada Gita is a great scripture from India. It is filled with jewels of wisdom. Here are some of passages from the Gita that can point to a deeper understanding of Divine Presence.
Chapter Six, Yoga of Meditation
Vs. 30 He who sees me everywhere and sees everything in Me, he never becomes separated from me or I from him
Vs. 31 He who, being established in unity, worships me who dwells in all beings, that Yogi abides in Me, whatever may be his mode of living
Chapter Eight, The Yoga of the Imperishable Brahman
Vs. 20. Behind the manifest and the Unmanifest, another unmanifested Eternal, who is eternal and changless is not dissolved in the cosmic dissolution.
Vs. 21. What is called the Unmanifested and the Imperishable, is said to be the highest state of being. They who reach It do not return.
Chapter Nine, Yoga of Kingly Science and Kingly Secret
Vs. 2 This is the supreme secret, the knowledge above all other, the ultimate purifier. Its virtue is great, its practice relatively easy and it is realized by direct intuitional knowledge. Here is the Truth eternal.
Vs. 4. The entire universe is pervaded by Me in that eternal form of mine which is not manifested to the senses. All beings exist in Me, but I do not dwell (physically) in them.
Chapter Ten Yoga of Divine Glories
Vs. 3,. The one who knows Me as being birthless, without beginning, Lord of the Universe, he alone among mortals is undeluded and liberated from all sins.
Vs. 10. To them who are ever steadfast, worshipping Me with love, I give the Yoga of Discrimination by which they come to Me.
Vs. 11 By the grace of my compassion for them, I, dwelling within their Self, I become the brilliant lamp of knowledge, dispelling the darkness of Ignorance.
Vs. 20 I am the Atman (the Self) seated in the hearts of all beings, I am the beginning, the middle and the end of all beings.
Chapter Twelve, The Yoga of Devotion or Bhakti Yoga
In this chapter it is revealed that the path of devotion is easier than the path of knowledge and all one needs to do is develop a loving relationship with God and remembers him and devotes all his actions to God thus attaining Divine Union through a Form of God which dissolves into union with the formless aspect of God, thus revealing all are one and the same.
Vs 2. Those who fixing their minds on Me, worship Me, ever steadfast and endowed with supreme faith, these are the best in Yoga in My opinion.
Vs 12. Better indeed is knowledge than practice, than knowledge meditation is better, than meditation is the shedding of sense of doership and the expectation of the fruits of actions, peace immediately follows
Vs. 15. He by whom the world is not agitates and who cannot be agitated by the world, and who is freed from joy, envy, fear, and anxiety- he is dear to me.
V. 18 He who is the same to friend and foe and also in honor and dishonor who is the same in the cold and heat and in pleasure and pain, who is free from attachments,
19. He to whom censure and praise are equal, who is silent, content with anything, homeless, steady of mind, and full of devotion- that one is dear to Me.
Chapter Thirteen, Yoga Distinction between the field and the knower of the field
Vs. 23 The Supreme Soul (purusha, Brahaman) in the body is called the Witness. He makes all the actions happen, experiences all our experiences. He is the infinite Being (the supreme Atman)
Vs 24. He who has experienced this Supreme Soul directly and realized It as Spirt and Matter together and its qualities (gunas) will not be born again regardless of how he has lived his life.
Vs 29.-30 He that sees the same is equally dwelling everywhere and sees that all actions are performed by Nature and that the Self is actionless attains the highest goal. The infinite Atman, without beginning, beyond the qualities (gunas) is not subject to change and is imperishable
Vs. 31 When a man sees the whole variety of beings as resting in the One and spreading forth from THAT alone, he then becomes Brahman.
Chapter Eighteen, The Yoga of Renunciation and Liberation
Vs.66 Surrender all your duties to me, take refuge in me alone. I will liberate you from sin and bondage
1.The despondency of Arjuna
2. Path of Knowledge
3.Yoga of Action, karma yoga
4.Yoga of Wisdom
5.Yoga of Renunciation of Action
6.Yoga of Meditation
7.Yoga of Wisdom
8. Yoga of Imperishable Brahman
9. Yoga of Kingly Science and Secret
10. Yoga of Divine Glories
11. Yoga of the Vision of the Cosmic Form
12. Yoga of Devotion
13. Yoga Distinction between the field and the knower of the field
14. Three Gunas
15. Supreme Being
16. Opposite qualities
17. Liberation by renunciation
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