Sanskrit · Devanagari
चेतसा सर्वकर्माणि मयि संन्यस्य मत्परः। बुद्धियोगमुपाश्रित्य मच्चित्तः सततं भव ॥
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cetasā sarvakarmāṇi mayi saṃnyasya matparaḥ buddhiyogamupāśritya maccittaḥ satataṃ bhava
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Dedicating in thought all actions to me, be constantly given up to me, (placing) your thoughts on me, through recourse to mental abstraction.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।18.57।। -- चेतसा विवेकबुद्ध्या सर्वकर्माणि दृष्टादृष्टार्थानि मयि ईश्वरे संन्यस्य यत् करोषि यदश्नासि (गीता 9।27) इति उक्तन्यायेन? मत्परः अहं वासुदेवः परो यस्य तव सः त्वं मत्परः सन् मय्यर्पितसर्वात्मभावः बुद्धियोगं समाहितबुद्धित्वं बुद्धियोगः तं बुद्धियोगम् उपाश्रित्य आश्रयः अनन्यशरणत्वं मच्चित्तः मय्येव चित्तं यस्य तव सः त्वं मच्चित्तः सततं सर्वदा भव।।
319987b46bc4…Rāmānuja
18.57 'By your mind' means with thought which considers the self as belonging to Me and as controlled by Me. For, it has been declared: 'Surrendering all your acts to Me with a mind focussed on the self' (3.30). Surrendering all acts to Me along with agentship and the object of worship and regarding 'Me as the goal,' i.e., constantly contemplating that I alone am to be attained as the goal; performing all acts; and resorting to Buddhi-Yoga - focus your mind on Me always. Buddhi Yoga here implies the mental attitude special to the seeker of salvation in regard to agency of works, the fruits etc. Thus
47a87a670cde…Swami Sivananda
18.57 चेतसा mentally? सर्वकर्माणि all actions? मयि in Me? संन्यस्य resigning? मत्परः having Me as the highest goal? बुद्धियोगम् the Yoga of discrimination? उपाश्रित्य resorting to? मच्चित्तः with the mind fixed on Me? सततम् always? भव be.Commentary Do thou? O Arjuna? surrender all thy actions to Me whilst at the same time fixing thy mind on discrimination. Then through that discrimination thou wilt see thy Self as separate from the body and activity and existing in My pure Being. Chetasa Mentally with the discriminative faith that knowledge finally leads to liberation when the heart is purified through selfless works done with the spirit of offering to God.Sarvakarmani All actions producing visible and invisible results.Me The Lord As taught in verse 27 of chapter IX Whatever thou doest? whatever thou eatest? etc.? do thou dedicate all thy actions to Me.Matparah Taking Me? Vaasudeva? as the supreme goal? and his whole self centred in Me.Resorting to Buddhi Yoga As thy sole refuge steadymindedness.
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