Bhagavad Gita 9.29

samo ’ham sarva-bhūteṣu

na me dveṣyo ’sti na priyaḥ

ye bhajanti tu māṁ bhaktyā

mayi te teṣu cāpy aham

 

I am forever equal to all who live,

None I shun or special favor give;

Yet those who love and worship me,

I dwell in them, and they in me.

 

My dear Lord, faith in your impartiality is the foundation of justice, and faith in your reciprocity is the foundation of mercy.

O supreme well-wisher, you are never partial in the sense of arbitrarily favoring some and disfavoring others. You treat everyone equally, giving them what they merit according to the universal law of karma. When life feels unfair due to my finite vision, faith in your fairness gives me a firm ground to stand on.

Once I am on this foundation, O supremely loving Lord, you gradually reveal that you are not merely a principle of justice. You are so much more—you are a living, loving person who wants the best for me and who wants me to return to a life of loving harmony with you, for you know that is my best life. Thus my focus rises from your fairness to a far more personal attribute: your kindness—or more precisely, your mercifulness. Through your mercy, you decrease my life’s negatives, even those due to me because of my past karma. Through your grace, you increase my life’s positives so I may be better situated for my soul’s flight toward you.

O ever-accessible Lord, when I thus soar into the universe of loving reciprocation with you, I appreciate that you are already in me and I am already in you, even as I feel inspired to enter into an ever more intimate bond with you.

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09.29 I envy no one, nor am I partial to anyone. I am equal to all. But whoever renders service unto Me in devotion is a friend, is in Me, and I am also a friend to him.