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THE BHAGAVAD-GITA.
also the Lord, but they know Me not in Essence, and hence they fall. (24)
यान्ति देवव्रता देवान् पितॄन्यान्ति पितृव्रताः ।
भूतानि यान्ति भूतेज्या यान्ति मद्याजिनोऽपि माम् ॥ २५ ॥
They who worship the Shining Ones go to the Shining Ones; to the Ancestors[1] go the Ancestor-worshippers; to the Elements[2] go those who sacrifice to Elementals; but My worshippers come unto Me. (25)
पत्रं पुष्पं फलं तोयं यो मे भक्त्या प्रयच्छति ।
तदहं भक्त्युपहृतमश्नामि प्रयतात्मनः ॥ २६ ॥
He who offereth to Me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit, water, that I accept from the striving self, offered as it is with devotion. (26)
यत्करोषि यदश्नासि यज्जुहोषि ददासि यत् ।
यत्तपस्यसि कौन्तेय तत्कुरुष्व मदर्पणम् ॥ २७ ॥
Whatsoever thou doest, whatsoever thou eatest,
