(Bhagavad Gita — Chapter 12)

In Chapter 12, Arjuna asks a sincere question. He says: some people worship a personal God — with form, with love, with devotion. And some people meditate on the formless, the infinite, the unmanifest. Which path is better?

Krishna’s answer is so kind, so honest, so like a loving parent.

He says: both arrive at me. But those who meditate on the formless — for an embodied being, that path is much harder. The mind needs something to hold. The heart needs something to love.

Bhakti yoga — the path of devotion — is not the easier path because it is shallow. It is the easier path because it works with your nature rather than against it.

You were built to love. Look at how effortlessly you love your children. Look at what you will do for the ones who mean everything to you. That capacity — that enormous, burning, selfless capacity to love — is the very energy that carries you to God when it is redirected toward the Divine.

In Chapter 12, Krishna describes the qualities of his dearest devotee. And I want you to notice: he does not say the most learned, or the most practiced, or the most austere.

He says: one who hates no creature, who is friendly and compassionate to all, who is free from possessiveness, who is the same in joy and sorrow, who is patient, who is content, who is devoted — that one is dear to me.

This is a portrait of a mother, isn’t it?

Every mother I have known carries this. The friendliness, the compassion, the willingness to bear discomfort for someone else’s peace. The capacity to find contentment in small things.

You may not know the Upanishads. You may not be able to meditate for two hours. But if you love — truly, widely, without condition — you are already walking the path Krishna speaks about.

Love everyone a little more today. That is the teaching. That is enough.