Bhagavad Gita 12.8मय्येव मन आधत्स्व मयि बुद्धिं निवेशय।निवसिष्यसि मय्येव अत ऊर्ध्वं न संशयः ॥
mayy eva mana ādhatsva mayi buddhiṁ niveśhaya
nivasiṣhyasi mayy eva ata ūrdhvaṁ na sanśhayaḥ
Sanskrit recitation
Many paths, one devotion · 12.1–12.12 · Teaching
Translation
Fix your mind on Me, and your intellect in Me. Then you will certainly live in Me alone hereafter.
Hindi translation
तू मेरेमें मनको लगा और मेरेमें ही बुद्धिको लगा; इसके बाद तू मेरेमें ही निवास करेगा -- इसमें संशय नहीं है।
Meaning
Fix thy mind means thy purposes and thoughts in Me the Lord in the Cosmic Form. Give up entirely all thoughts of sensual objects. Fix in Me thy intellect also -- the faculty which resolves and determines.What will be the result then Thou shalt undoubtedly live in Me as Myself. O Arjuna, of this there is no doubt whatsoever.The Yoga of meditation is described in this verse. (Cf.VIII.7X.9XI.34XVIII.65)
After Swami Sivananda
Many paths, one devotion· 12.1–12.12→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 12.1Arjuna said, "Which of them are better versed in Yoga—those who steadfastly worship You,…
- 12.2The Blessed Lord said, "In My opinion, those who fix their minds on Me, worship Me ever…
- 12.3Those who worship the imperishable, the indefinable, the unmanifest, the omnipresent, the…
- 12.4Having restrained all the senses, being even-minded everywhere, and intent on the welfare…
- 12.5Greater is their trouble whose minds are set on the unmanifested, for the goal of the…
- 12.6But to those who worship Me, renouncing all actions in Me, regarding Me as the supreme…
- 12.7To those whose minds are set on Me, O Arjuna, verily I soon become the savior out of the…
12.8Fix your mind on Me, and your intellect in Me. Then you will certainly live in Me alone…
- 12.9If you are unable to fix your mind steadily on Me, then seek to reach Me through the yoga…
- 12.10If you are unable to practice even this Abhyasa Yoga, be intent on doing actions for My…
- 12.11If you are unable to do even this, then, resort to union with Me and renounce the fruits…
- 12.12Better indeed is knowledge than practice; better than knowledge is meditation; better than…
Word-by-word→
- na
- not
- eva
- alone
- mayi
- in me
- buddhim
- intellect
- manaḥ
- mind
- ādhatsva
- fix
- niveśhaya
- surrender
- sanśhayaḥ
- doubt
- nivasiṣhyasi
- you shall always live
- ataḥ ūrdhvam
- thereafter
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