Word meanings
- cetasā
- by consciousness
- sarva-karmāṇi
- every activity
- mayi
- to me
- sannyasya
- dedicating
- mat-paraḥ
- having me as the supreme goal
- buddhi-yogam
- having the intellect united with God
- upāśritya
- taking shelter of
- mat-cittaḥ
- consciousness absorbed in me
- satatam
- always
- bhava
- be
Translations
Mentally renouncing all actions in Me, having Me as the highest goal, and resorting to the yoga of discrimination, do thou ever fix thy mind on Me.
Surrender your actions to Me, live in Me, focus your intellect on Me, and always think of Me.
Mentally surrendering all actions to Me and accepting Me as the supreme, keep your mind ever fixed on Me by resorting to the concentration of your intellect.
चित्तसे सम्पूर्ण कर्म मुझमें अर्पण करके, मेरे परायण होकर तथा समताका आश्रय लेकर निरन्तर मुझमें चित्तवाला हो जा।Commentary
Do thou? O Arjuna, surrender all thy actions to Me whilst at the same time fixing thy mind on discrimination. Then through that discrimination thou wilt see thy Self as separate from the body and activity and existing in My pure Being. Chetasa Mentally with the discriminative faith that knowledge finally leads to liberation when the heart is purified through selfless works done with the spirit of offering to God. Sarvakarmani All actions producing visible and invisible results.
Me The Lord As taught in verse 27 of chapter IX Whatever thou doest, whatever thou eatest, etc., do thou dedicate all thy actions to Me. Matparah Taking Me? Vaasudeva, as the supreme goal, and his whole self centred in Me. Resorting to Buddhi Yoga As thy sole refuge steadymindedness.