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Bhagavad Gita · 18.57 · Yoga through the Perfection of Renunciation and Surrender·57 of 78

चेतसा सर्वकर्माणि मयि संन्यस्य मत्परःबुद्धियोगमुपाश्रित्य मच्चित्तः सततं भव

chetasā sarva-karmāṇi mayi sannyasya mat-paraḥ

buddhi-yogam upāśhritya mach-chittaḥ satataṁ bhava

Sanskrit recitation

Surrender the weight · 18.56–18.66 · Teaching

Translation

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.

Meaning

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.

After Swami Sivananda

Surrender the weight· 18.56–18.66

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

Word-by-word
mayi
to me
bhava
be
satatam
always
chetasā
by consciousness
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
sarva-karmāṇi
every activity

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