Devanagari
कुर्यात् सर्वाणि कर्माणि मदर्थं शनकै: स्मरन् ।
मय्यर्पितमनश्चित्तो मद्धर्मात्ममनोरति: ॥ ९ ॥
Verse text
kuryāt sarvāṇi karmāṇi
mad-arthaṁ śanakaiḥ smaran
mayy arpita-manaś-citto
mad-dharmātma-mano-ratiḥ
Synonyms
kuryāt
—
one should perform
;
sarvāṇi
—
all
;
karmāṇi
—
prescribed activities
;
mat
—
artham — for Me
;
śanakaiḥ
—
without becoming impetuous
;
smaran
—
remembering
;
mayi
—
unto Me
;
arpita
—
who has offered
;
manaḥ
—
cittaḥ — his mind and his intelligence
;
mat
—
dharma — My devotional service
;
ātma
—
manaḥ — of his own mind
;
ratiḥ
—
the attraction .
Translation
Always remembering Me, one should perform all his duties for Me without becoming impetuous. With mind and intelligence offered to Me, one should fix his mind in attraction to My devotional service.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Always remembering me, one should perform all his duties for me as the cases arise. His consciousness should be fixed in persons whose minds are dedicated to me and his mind should be attracted to bhakti.
The Lord now describes both pure and mixed bhakti by uttering words with two meanings. One should perform all material actions such as brushing the teeth and all spiritual actions such as hearing and chanting for me. This is the first meaning. One should perform all varṇāśrama actions for me. This is the second meaning. His consciousness should be fixed in persons whose minds are dedicated to me (mayy arpita-manaś-cittaḥ). This means he is attached to my devotees. His mind (ātma-manaḥ) is attracted to bhakti (mad-dharma).
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Purport
The words
mad-dharmātma-mano-ratiḥ
mean that all of one’s love and affection should be devoted to pleasing the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is not indicated here that one should try to relish selfish satisfaction in devotional service, but rather that one should be attracted to the Lord’s own satisfaction, which one achieves by faithfully executing the order of a bona fide spiritual master coming in disciplic succession from Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself. Attachment to one’s own satisfaction, even within devotional service, is materialistic, whereas attachment to the satisfaction of the Lord is pure spiritual emotion.