6.47 And of all of those Krishna speaks
योगिनामपि सर्वेषां मद्गतेनान्तरात्मना
श्रद्धावान्भजते यो मां स मे युक्ततमो मतः
yoginām api sarveṣhāṁ mad-gatenāntar-ātmanā
śhraddhāvān bhajate yo māṁ sa me yuktatamo mataḥ
And of all who practise, the one who is turned inwardly to me with faith and worships me — that one I hold to be most joined of all.
Explanation
And then one more ranking, in the last line.
Of all who practise, the one turned inwardly to him with faith — that one I hold to be most joined of all.
Chapter 6 is the book's most technical chapter on meditation, and it ends by placing devotion at the top of it. Chapter 12 will do the same thing to the formless, and chapter 14 to the strands.
Word by word
- yoginām
- of all yogis
- api
- however
- sarveṣhām
- all types of
- mat-gatena
- absorbed in me (God)
- antaḥ
- inner
- ātmanā
- with the mind
- śhraddhā-vān
- with great faith
- bhajate
- engage in devotion
- yaḥ
- who
- mām
- to me
- saḥ
- he
- me
- by me
- yukta-tamaḥ
- the highest yogi
- mataḥ
- is considered
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