Bhagavad Gita 8.13ओमित्येकाक्षरं ब्रह्म व्याहरन्मामनुस्मरन्।यः प्रयाति त्यजन्देहं स याति परमां गतिम् ॥
oṁ ityekākṣharaṁ brahma vyāharan mām anusmaran
yaḥ prayāti tyajan dehaṁ sa yāti paramāṁ gatim
Sanskrit recitation
What you remember at the end · 8.1–8.13 · Teaching
Translation
Uttering the one-syllabled Om, the Brahman, and remembering Me, he who departs, leaving the body, attains the Supreme Goal.
Hindi translation
।।8.12 -- 8.13।। (इन्द्रियोंके) सम्पूर्ण द्वारोंको रोककर मनका हृदयमें निरोध करके और अपने प्राणोंको मस्तकमें स्थापित करके योगधारणामें सम्यक् प्रकारसे स्थित हुआ जो साधक 'ऊँ' इस एक अक्षर ब्रह्मका उच्चारण और मेरा स्मरण करता हुआ शरीरको छोड़कर जाता है, वह परमगतिको प्राप्त होता है।
Meaning
Having controlled the thoughts the Yogi ascends by the Sushumna, the Nadi (subtle psychic nervechannel) which passes upwards from the heart. He fixes his whole Prana or lifreath in the crown of the head in the Brahmarandhra or the hole of Brahman. He utters the sacred monosyllable Om, meditates on Me and leaves the body.
After Swami Sivananda
What you remember at the end· 8.1–8.13→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 8.1Arjuna said, "What is Brahman? What is Adhyatma? What is action, O best among men? What is…
- 8.2Who and how is Adhiyajna here in this body, O destroyer of Madhu? And how, at the time of…
- 8.3The Blessed Lord said, "Brahman is the Imperishable, the Supreme; its essential nature is…
- 8.4Adhibhuta—knowledge of the elements—pertains to My perishable nature, and the Purusha, or…
- 8.5And whoever, leaving their body, goes forth remembering Me alone at the time of death,…
- 8.6Whoever at the end leaves the body, thinking of any being, to that being only does he go,…
- 8.7Therefore, at all times, remember Me only and fight. With your mind and intellect fixed on…
- 8.8With the mind not moving towards any other thing, made steadfast through the practice of…
- 8.9Whosoever meditates on the Omniscient, the Ancient, the Ruler of the whole world, minuter…
- 8.10At the time of death, with an unwavering mind, endowed with devotion, by the power of…
- 8.11That which is declared to be Imperishable by those who know the Vedas, that which the…
- 8.12Having closed all the gates, confined the mind in the heart, and fixed the life-breath in…
8.13Uttering the one-syllabled Om, the Brahman, and remembering Me, he who departs, leaving…
Word-by-word→
- om
- sacred syllable representing the formless aspect of God
- iti
- thus
- mām
- me (Shree Krishna)
- deham
- the body
- gatim
- goal
- saḥ
- he
- yaḥ
- who
- yāti
- attains
- brahma
- the Absolute Truth
- tyajan
- quitting
- paramām
- the supreme
- prayāti
- departs
- anusmaran
- remembering
- vyāharan
- chanting
- eka-akṣharam
- one syllabled
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