BG 18.57
Bhagavad Gītā · Mokṣa Sanyāsa YogaAnuṣṭubh (śloka)चेतसा सर्वकर्माणि मयि संन्यस्य मत्परः | बुद्धियोगमुपाश्रित्य मच्चित्तः सततं भव ||१८-५७||
cetasā sarvakarmāṇi mayi saṃnyasya matparaḥ . buddhiyogamupāśritya maccittaḥ satataṃ bhava ||18-57||
Linguistic facts
Anuṣṭubh (śloka) · 16+16 syllables
scansion (laghu/guru)
12 words analyzed
- चेतस्cetas← चित्nominal · nominative singular masculine
- आā← आnominal · instrumental singular masculine
- सर्वकर्माणिsarvakarmāṇi← सर्वकर्मन्nominal · vocative plural neuter
- मयिmayi← मेविnominal · locative singular neuter
- संन्यस्यsaṃnyasya← संन्यस्indeclinable
- मत्mat← मथ्nominal · nominative singular masculine
- परस्paras← परस्indeclinable
- बुद्धियोगमुपाश्रित्यbuddhiyogamupāśrityaunknown
- मत्mat← मथ्nominal · nominative singular masculine
- चित्तस्cittas← चित्nominal · nominative singular masculine
- सततम्satatam← सततnominal · accusative singular masculine
- भवbhava← भूverb · imperative second singular active (√bhū)
Facts come from Vidyut (deterministic), never the model. Automated segmentation isn’t hand-verified — gaps are shown, not guessed.
Translations
18.57 Mentally renouncing all actions in Me, having Me as the highest goal, resorting to the Yoga of discrimination do thou ever fix thy mind on Me.
source ↗8 more attributed translations
In all activities just depend upon Me and work always under My protection. In such devotional service, be fully conscious of Me.
18.57. [Hence] renouncing by mind all actions in Me, O descendant of Bharata, and taking hold of the knowledge-Yoga, you must always be with your thought-organ [turned] towards Me.
18.57 Surrender then thy actions unto Me, live in Me, concentrate thine intellect on Me, and think always of Me.
18.57 See Comment under 18.60
18.57 'By your mind' means with thought which considers the self as belonging to Me and as controlled by Me. For, it has been declared: 'Surrendering all your acts to Me with a mind focussed on the self' (3.30). Surrendering all acts to Me along with agentship and the object of worship and regarding 'Me as the goal,' i.e., constantly contemplating that I alone am to be attained as the goal; performing all acts; and resorting to Buddhi-Yoga - focus your mind on Me always. Buddhi Yoga here implies the mental attitude special to the seeker of salvation in regard to agency of works, the fruits etc. Thus
18.57 Cetasa, mentally, with a discriminating intellect; sannyasya, surrendering; sarva-karmani, all actions meant for seen or unseen results; mayi, to Me, to God, in the manner described in, 'Whatever you do, whatever you eat' (9.27); and matparah, accepting Me as the supreme-you to whom I, Vasudeva, am the supreme, are matparah; becoming so; satatam, ever; maccittah bhava, have your kind fixed only on Me; upasritya, by resorting-resorting implies not taking recourse to anything else-; buddhi-yogam, to the concentration of your intellect. Having the intellect (buddhi) concentrated on Me is buddhi-yoga.
18.57 Surrendering all acts to me by your mind, thinking of Me as the goal, and resorting to Buddhi-yoga, focus your thought ever on Me.
18.57 Mentally surrendering all actions to Me and accepting Me as the supreme, have your mind ever fixed on Me by resorting to the concentration of your intellect.
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