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3.30 Surrender it all, and fight Krishna speaks

मयि सर्वाणि कर्माणि संन्यस्याध्यात्मचेतसा
निराशीर्निर्ममो भूत्वा युध्यस्व विगतज्वरः

mayi sarvāṇi karmāṇi sannyasyādhyātma-chetasā
nirāśhīr nirmamo bhūtvā yudhyasva vigata-jvaraḥ

Surrendering all your actions to me, your thoughts resting on what is highest, free of longing and free of “mine” — fight.

Explanation

Surrender it all — and then one word.

Actions surrendered, thoughts on what is highest, free of longing and of mine. And then: fight.

yudhya. The same construction 8.7 will use. Every condition in the verse is interior, and the thing to be done is the thing he was already standing there to do.

Word by word

mayi
unto me
sarvāṇi
all
karmāṇi
works
sannyasya
renouncing completely
adhyātma-chetasā
with the thoughts resting on God
nirāśhīḥ
free from hankering for the results of the actions
nirmamaḥ
without ownership
bhūtvā
so being
yudhyasva
fight
vigata-jvaraḥ
without mental fever