# Bhagavad Gita 8.6

**Canonical reference:** `gita.8.6`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यं यं वापि स्मरन्भावं त्यजत्यन्ते कलेवरम्।
तं तमेवैति कौन्तेय सदा तद्भावभावितः ॥

## IAST

yaṃ yaṃ vāpi smaranbhāvaṃ tyajatyante kalevaram
taṃ tamevaiti kaunteya sadā tadbhāvabhāvitaḥ

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Also whichever form (of deity) he remembers when he finally leaves this body to that he goes O son of Kuntī ! having been used to ponder on it.

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