9.34 Fix your mind on me Krishna speaks
मन्मना भव मद्भक्तो मद्याजी मां नमस्कुरु
मामेवैष्यसि युक्त्वैवमात्मानं मत्परायणः
man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru
mām evaiṣhyasi yuktvaivam ātmānaṁ mat-parāyaṇaḥ
Fix your mind on me, be devoted to me, make your offering to me, bow to me. So joined, with me as your goal, you will come to me.
Explanation
Four instructions, and the chapter is done.
Fix your mind on me, be devoted, make your offering, bow. So joined, with him as the goal, you will come to him.
The king of knowledge and king of secrets, having been declared the highest purifier and easy to practise, ends as four verbs anyone could perform this afternoon.
Word by word
- mat-manāḥ
- always think of me
- bhava
- be
- mat
- my
- bhaktaḥ
- devotee
- mat
- my
- yājī
- worshipper
- mām
- to me
- namaskuru
- offer obeisances
- mām
- to me
- eva
- certainly
- eṣhyasi
- you will come
- yuktvā
- united with me
- evam
- thus
- ātmānam
- your mind and body
- mat-parāyaṇaḥ
- having dedicated to me
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