BG 12.8
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Devanagari
मय्येव मन आधत्स्व मयि बुद्धिं निवेशय ।
निवसिष्यसि मय्येव अत ऊर्ध्वं न संशय: ॥ ८ ॥
Verse text
mayy eva mana ādhatsva
mayi buddhiṁ niveśaya
nivasiṣyasi mayy eva
ata ūrdhvaṁ na saṁśayaḥ
Synonyms
mayi
—
upon Me
;
eva
—
certainly
;
manaḥ
—
mind
;
ādhatsva
—
fix
;
mayi
—
upon Me
;
buddhim
—
intelligence
;
niveśaya
—
apply
;
nivasiṣyasi
—
you will live
;
mayi
—
in Me
;
eva
—
certainly
;
ataḥ ūrdhvam
—
thereafter
;
na
—
never
;
saṁśayaḥ
—
doubt.
Translation
Just fix your mind upon Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and engage all your intelligence in Me. Thus you will live in Me always, without a doubt.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
8. Concentrate your mind only on Me. Fix your intelligence on Me. You will attain residence with Me after leaving the body, without doubt.
Translation (Baladeva Vidyabhusana)
8. Concentrate your mind only on Me. Fix your intelligence on Me. You will without doubt attain residence with Me after leaving the body.
Purport
One who is engaged in Lord Kṛṣṇa’s devotional service lives in a direct relationship with the Supreme Lord, so there is no doubt that his position is transcendental from the very beginning. A devotee does not live on the material plane – he lives in Kṛṣṇa. The holy name of the Lord and the Lord are nondifferent; therefore when a devotee chants Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa and His internal potency are dancing on the tongue of the devotee. When he offers Kṛṣṇa food, Kṛṣṇa directly accepts these eatables, and the devotee becomes Kṛṣṇa-ized by eating the remnants. One who does not engage in such service cannot understand how this is so, although this is a process recommended in the Bhagavad-gītā and in other Vedic literatures.
Purport (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
“Since bhakti is the best, please perform only bhakti.” He teaches this bhakti in three verses.
The word eva excludes the impersonal aspect of the Lord. Concentrate your mind on Me only, remember only Me (mayy eva mana ādhatsva), that form of Śyāmasundara, with yellow cloth and forest garland—and not the impersonal Brahman. And also, fix your intelligence, which has the power of discrimination, upon Me. This means to continually reflect on the statements of scripture using intelligence, which will result in meditation. Such contemplation is called manana. Thus, you will attain residence near Me. Nivasiṣyasi is a poetic form of nivatsyasi (future of nivas) for metrical purpose.
Purport (Baladeva Vidyabhusana)
Since this is so, concentrate your mind upon Me alone, not upon your ātmā (mayi eva ādhatsva). Offer your intellect to Me. Doing this, you will live very close Me, Kṛṣṇa (mayi). You are not like the saniṣṭha devotee, who, after realizing the enjoyments of svarga, attains Me in a majestic form (but not close to Me).
Surrender Unto Me
"In Me", means "Near Me".
In jnana one fixes his mind on the fact that he is the soul. In Krsna consciousness one fixes his mind on Krsna. This is the ultimate process of bhakti according to Srila Rupa Goswami: 'never forget Krsna'. This is the first stage: fixing one's mind upon Krsna. The second stage is:
[2. Practicing the regulative principles of bhakti yoga to increase one's desire and ability to remember and obtain Krsna.(9)]