Discourses on the Gita Whenever there is a wedding in the Ashram, we ask the couple to learn by heart and ponder over this chapter as one of the five sacrifices they have to offer. Knowledge and action in the absence of devotion are dry as dust and are likely to make us confirmed bondslaves. Let us, therefore, commence this study of the Gita with a heart full of devotion. Arjuna asks the Lord, `Some devotees adore a personal (sakara) God while others worship the Absolute (nirakara). Which of these two courses is better?' The Lord replies, `Those who fix their minds on Me (as the One Life in all) with perfect faith and are absorbed in Me are My devotees indeed. But those who worship the Absolute and restrain and subdue their senses, are equiminded towards all living beings and serve them without looking on some as of a superior and others as of an inferior grade - they also will come to Me. Neither of these two classes of devotees is superior to the other. But a full realization of the Absolute is almost impossible for an embodied being.