By degrees, little by little, from time to time, a wise person should remove his own impurities as a smith removes the dross from silver.
The entire world may not change. But your tiny world you can and will change forever at this very moment with the help of your confidence-heart. Yours will be the unparalleled victory.
Desireless, serene, immortal, self-existent, contented with the essence, lacking nothing, is He. One has no fear of death who has known Him, the Atman - serene, ageless, youthful.
Just as rivers flow from east and west to merge with the one sea, forgetting that they were ever separate rivers, so all beings lose their separateness when they eventually merge into pure Being.
Whenever there is a decline of righteousness, O Arjuna, and the rise of unrighteousness, then I manifest myself.

