🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 12.6

Chapter 12 · भक्तियोग · Bhakti-Yoga · "The Yoga of Devotion" · Verse 6 of 20

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🪷 English Translations

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Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 · public domain · Cosmo Press tradition

12.6 Verily, those who surrender their actions to Me, who muse on Me, worship Me and meditate on Me alone, with no thought save of Me,

Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society

12.6 But to those who worship Me, renouncing all actions in Me, regarding Me as the supreme gaol, meditating on Me with single-minded Yoga.

Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school

12.6 Tu, as for; ye, those who; sannyasya, having dedicated; sarvani, all; karmani, actions; mayi, to Me who am God; and matparah, having accepted Me as the supreme; upasate, meditate; dhyayantah, by thinking; mam, of Me; ananyena, with single-minded; yogena, concentration; eva, only-. That (yoga) is single-minded which has no other object than the Cosmic Deity, the Self. By thinking exclusively with that single-minded [The Ast. and the A.A. read 'kena, what?' in place of 'kevalena, exclusively'.-Tr.] (yoga)-. What comes to them?

Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school

12.6 - 12.7 But those who, with a mind 'focused on Me,' the Supreme Self, and 'intent upon Me,' namely, holding Me as their sole object, dedicating to Me all their actions - i.e., including all worldly actions like eating which are meant for supporting the body, as also Vedic rites like sacrifices, gifts, fire-offerings, austerities etc., generally done by worldly-minded people for other purposes - worship Me and meditate on Me with exclusive devotion, namely, with devotion without any other purpose, adoring Me by all such acts as meditation, worship, prostration, praises and hymns which are by themselves exceedingly dear to them and are eal to the end itself - to these I become soon their saviour from the sea of Samsara which, on account of its being antagonistic to the attainment of Myself, is deadly.

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly

12.6. On the other hand, those who, having renounced all their actions in Me, have Me [alone] their goal; and revere Me, meditating on Me by that Yoga alone, which admits no other element but Me in it;

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

For the Hindi-aware seer · Pūjya Swami Rāmsukhdās ji's translation · a high-readability modern Hindi rendering · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur tradition. (→ Full Mahāpurusha-detail page for the 102-year-living Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī Mahātmā.)

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī tradition · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur · highest modern Hindi reading

।।12.6।।परन्तु जो कर्मोंको मेरे अर्पण करके और मेरे परायण होकर अनन्ययोगसे मेरा ही ध्यान करते हुए मेरी उपासना करते हैं।

🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices

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Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors

12.6 ये who? तु but? सर्वाणि all? कर्माणि actions? मयि in Me? संन्यस्य renouncing? मत्पराः regarding Me as the supreme goal? अनन्येन singleminded? एव even? योगेन with the Yoga? माम् Me? ध्यायन्तः meditating? उपासते worship.Commentary Ananya Yoga Unswerving Yoga exclusive? having no other objects of worship or support save the Lord Samadhi.Even in Bhakti Yoga one should not abandon actions. He must perform actions but he will have to dedicate the merits or the fruits to the Lord. (Cf.IX.27)

Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)

Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship

12.6 See Comment under 12.8

Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching

।।12.6।। See Commentary under 12.7

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🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī · Hindi vyākhyā · the modern bilingual anchor

।।12.6।। व्याख्या--[ग्यारहवें अध्यायके पचपनवें श्लोकमें भगवान्ने अनन्य भक्तके लक्षणोंमें तीन विध्यात्मक '(मत्कर्मकृत्, मत्परमः और मद्भक्तः)' और दो निषेधात्मक '(सङ्गवर्जितः' और 'निर्वैरः') पद दिये थे। उन्हीं पदोंका संकेत इस श्लोकमें इस प्रकार किया गया है --

🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā

This is verse 6 of 20 in Chapter 12 · Bhakti-Yoga (The Yoga of Devotion)
Chapter theme: Supreme devotion · the 39 qualities of the dear-bhakta · na cirāt rescue
Ṣaṭka grouping: TAT-Ṣaṭka (BG 7-12 · the Lord)
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⭐ Mahābhārata anchor: this verse is also MBh 6.34.6 (Bhīṣma-Parva · the BG in its full narrative home)

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