Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18, Verse 65

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• 1 मन्मना भव मद्भक्तो मद्याजी मां नमस्कुरु |मामेवैष्यसि सत्यं ते प्रतिजाने प्रियोऽसि मे ||
• 2 भावार्थ:
• 3 Translation

मन्मना भव मद्भक्तो मद्याजी मां नमस्कुरु |

मामेवैष्यसि सत्यं ते प्रतिजाने प्रियोऽसि मे ||

man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru
mām evaiṣhyasi satyaṁ te pratijāne priyo ‘si me

भावार्थ:

हे अर्जुन! तू मुझमें मनवाला हो, मेरा भक्त बन, मेरा पूजन करने वाला हो और मुझको प्रणाम कर। ऐसा करने से तू मुझे ही प्राप्त होगा, यह मैं तुझसे सत्य प्रतिज्ञा करता हूँ क्योंकि तू मेरा अत्यंत प्रिय है॥65॥

Translation

Always think of me, be devoted to me, worship me, and offer obeisance to me. Doing so, you will certainly come to me. This is my pledge to you, for you are very dear to me.

English Translation Of Sri Shankaracharya’s Sanskrit Commentary By Swami Gambirananda

18.65 Bhava manmana, have your mind fixed on Me; be mad-bhaktah, My devotee; be a madyaji,sacrificer to Me, be engaged in sacrifices to Me; namaskuru, bow down; mam, to Me. Offer ever your salutations to Me alone. Continuing thus in them, by surrendering all ends, means and needs to Vasudeva only, esyasi, you will come; mam, to Me; eva, alone. (This) satyam, truth: do I pratijane, promise; te, to you, i.e. in this matter I make this true promise. For, asi, you are; priyah, dear; me, to Me.

The idea conveyed by the passage is: Having thus understood that the Lord is true in His pormise, and knowing for certain that liberation is the unfailing result of devotion to the Lord, one should have dedication to God as his only supreme goal.

Having summed up surrender to God as the highest secret of steadiness in Karma-yoga, there-after, with the idea that complete realization, which is the fruit of adherence to Karma-yoga and which has been enjoined in all the Upanisads, has to be spoken about, the Lord says:

📖 Related: Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 7, Verse 10