Who is dearer to God?

Fixing the mind and intellect, one would reach the destination. Practice of Yoga would help in fixing the mind steadily on the object of interest. If the Yoga of concentrating the mind is not achievable, perfection could be reached by performing actions towards God. Even if this not doable, taking refuge in the God would help. Knowledge is better than practice. Medidation is better than Knowledge. Renunciation of fruits of action is better than Knowledge. Peace immediately follows renunciation. The one who does not hate any creature, who is friendly and compassionate to all, free from attachment, egotism, balanced in pleasure and pain, forgiving, ever content, steady in meditation, faith with firm conviction, self controlled, mind and intellect dedicating to ultimate reality is favored by God. Who is free of wants, pure, expert, unconcerned, untroubled, renouncing all undertakings is dearer to the God. The one who neither rejoices, nor hates, nor grieves, nor desires, renounces good and evil and full of devotion is nearer to God. The one who treats foe and friend equally, takes honor and dishonor, pleasure and pain, heat or cold in the same way; he who views the praise and censure in the same way, who is silent, content with anything, homeless, steady in his mind, and who is full of devotion is dear to the God. Those who follow this immortal Dharma with faith are favored by God.

Humility, pretentiousness, non injury, forgiveness, uprightness, service of the teacher, purity, steadfastness, self control, Indifference to the objects of the senses, also absence of egoism, perception of the evil in birth, death, old age, sickness and pain, Non attachment, non identification of the Self with son, wife, home and the rest, and constant even mindedness on the attainment of the desirable and the undesirable, Unswerving devotion towards God by the Yoga of non separation, resort to solitary places, distaste for the society of men, Constancy in Self knowledge, perception of the end of true knowledge. This is declared to be knowledge, and what is opposed to it is ignorance.

The Light of all lights, which is beyond darkness, is said to be the knowledge. It is the Knowable and the goal of knowledge. It is seated in the hearts of all. It has to be known. One attains immortality after knowing the beginning less supreme Brahman. It is neither being nor non being. With hands and feet everywhere, with eyes, heads and mouths everywhere, with ears everywhere, He exists in the worlds, enveloping all. Shining by the functions of all the senses, yet without the senses; unattached, yet supporting all; devoid of qualities, yet their experiencer, without and within (all) beings, the unmoving and also the moving; because of His subtlety, unknowable; and near and far away is That. And undivided, yet He exists as if divided in beings; He is to be known as the supporter of beings; He devours and He generates also.[12]