Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 12, Verse 8
मय्येव मन आधत्स्व मयि बुद्धिं निवेशय । निवसिष्यसि मय्येव अत ऊर्ध्वं न संशयः
mayyeva mana ādhatsva mayi buddhiṃ niveśaya | nivasiṣyasi mayyeva ata ūrdhvaṃ na saṃśayaḥ
Translation
Fix thy mind in Me exclusively; apply thy reason to Me. Thou shalt no doubt live in Me alone hereafter.
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- mayi
- in me
- eva
- even
- manaḥ
- the mind
- ādhatsva
- place
- mayi
- in me
- buddhim
- the reason
- niveśaya
- cause to enter
- nivasiṣyasi
- (thou) shalt dwell
- mayi
- in me
- eva
- even
- ataḥ
- hence
- ūrdhvam
- above (afterwards)
- na
- not
- saṃśayaḥ
- doubt
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
Fix thy mind (manas) — thy purposes and thoughts — in Me, the Lord in the Universal Form. Fix in Me thy reason (buddhi) also which resolves and determines. The result is this: Thou shalt without fail abide in Me as Myself, on the death of this body. Thou shalt not doubt it.