Verses

Seven
I shall pass on to you this Knowledge combined with direct experience. When this is known in full, there is nothing more to be known.
7:2

O Arjuna. In this vast universe there is nothing higher than I. All this is strung on Me as clusters of gems on a string.
7:7

—Photo by Michelle Kaufman, NASA

Know Me O Arjuna as the eternal seed in all beings. I am the intelligence of the intelligent, the radiance of the beautiful.
7:10

And know that the three qualities of the soul come from me—peaceful light, restless life and lifeless darkness. But I am not in them; they are in Me.
7:12

O Arjuna. By the delusion of the pairs of opposites—attraction and aversion, like and dislike, desire and hatred—all beings are subject to illusion in the world.
7:27

Those who take refuge in me, striving for liberation from aging and death, come to know Brahman, the Self, and the nature of action.
7:29

—from Manifestations of Shiva
Stella Kramrisch

Eight
At the time of death, he who leaves his body remembering Me only attains my Being. There is no doubt about this.
8:5

Therefore, remember Me at all times. Remember Me and fight. Surrendering your mind and intellect to Me, you shall in truth come to Me.
8:7

There is a reward that comes from studying the Veda, or from sacrifice, or from leading a life of austerity, or from giving. But the yogi who knows the truth of the two paths of light and darkness attains a far greater reward—the Supreme state, his everlasting home.
8:28