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Adhyāyas / Rāja-Vidyā-Rāja-Guhya Yogaḥ / verse 34

Mūla — the verse

Gita Press numbering
मन्मना भव मद्भक्तो मद्याजी मां नमस्कुरु। मामेवैष्यसि युक्त्वैवमात्मानं मत्परायणः
man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru mām evaiṣhyasi yuktvaivam ātmānaṁ mat-parāyaṇaḥ
Anuṣṭubh

Translation

Swami Gambhīrānanda · follows Śaṅkara-bhāṣya

Having your mind fixed on Me, be devoted to Me, sacrifice to Me, and bow down to Me. By concentrating your mind and accepting Me as the supreme goal, you shall surely attain Me, who am thus the Self.

हिन्दी अनुवाद — Swami Tejomayānanda

(तुम) मुझमें स्थिर मन वाले बनो; मेरे भक्त और मेरे पूजन करने वाले बनो; मुझे नमस्कार करो; इस प्रकार मत्परायण (अर्थात् मैं ही जिसका परम लक्ष्य हूँ ऐसे) होकर आत्मा को मुझसे युक्त करके तुम मुझे ही प्राप्त होओगे।।

Pronunciation — Vaamshii

from Vaamshii
मन् मना भव मद् भक्तः
मद् याजी मान् नमस् कुरु
मामे वैष्यसि युक् त्वैवम्
आत्मानम् मत् परा यणः
॥ ३४ ॥
Read each split group as one breath-unit; hyphens join pādas kept whole for the meter or a compound word. Symbols: # upadhmānīya (visarga before p/ph), % jihvāmūlīya (visarga before k/kh), ऽ avagraha (an elided a). Full method →

Word by word

padārtha
mat-manāḥalways think of me
bhavabe
matmy
bhaktaḥdevotee
matmy
yājīworshipper
māmto me
namaskuruoffer obeisances
māmto me
evacertainly
eṣhyasiyou will come
yuktvāunited with me
evamthus
ātmānamyour mind and body
mat-parāyaṇaḥhaving dedicated to me

Themes

from The Thematic Companion to the Bhagavad Gītā

Meaning — Questions & Solutions

from Q&A with KnA
9.34Which self, in total surrender?

“Fix the mind on Me, be devoted to Me, sacrifice to Me, bow down to Me; thus uniting yourself, with Me as your supreme goal, you shall come to Me.” The “self” that surrenders is the whole individual — mind (manas), act (worship), body (prostration), will (making Kṛṣṇa the goal) — offered up together. Surrender here is not the collapse of one part of us but the gathering of every part towards a single end. And the one to whom it is offered is, in the final analysis, one's own deepest Self; so the surrender of the little self is, secretly, its homecoming. This verse — repeated almost word for word at 18.65 — is the compact seal of the whole path of devotion.