Chapter 18 · Verse 57

Yoga through the Perfection of Renunciation and Surrender

चेतसा सर्वकर्माणि मयि संन्यस्य मत्परः।बुद्धियोगमुपाश्रित्य मच्चित्तः सततं भव

chetasā sarva-karmāṇi mayi sannyasya mat-paraḥ buddhi-yogam upāśhritya mach-chittaḥ satataṁ bhava

Word Meanings

chetasā — 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; upāśhritya — taking shelter of; mat-chittaḥ — consciousness absorbed in me; satatam — always; bhava — be

Language:

Translation

Surrendering all actions to Me through your mind, regarding Me as the supreme goal, taking refuge in the yoga of the intellect, fix your consciousness on Me always.

Commentary

चेतसा mentally? सर्वकर्माणि all actions? मयि in Me? संन्यस्य resigning? मत्परः having Me as the highest goal? बुद्धियोगम् the Yoga of discrimination? उपाश्रित्य resorting to? मच्चित्तः with the mind fixed on Me? सततम् always? भव be.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.