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Bhagavad-gītā As It Is · Text 12.8
मय्येव मन आधत्स्व मयि बुद्धिं निवेशय ।
निवसिष्यसि मय्येव अत ऊर्ध्वं न संशय: ॥ ८ ॥
mayy eva mana ādhatsva
mayi buddhiṁ niveśaya
nivasiṣyasi mayy eva
ata ūrdhvaṁ na saṁśayaḥ
Just fix your mind upon Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and engage all your intelligence in Me. Thus you will live in Me always, without a doubt.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioWhat this verse is saying, and where it sits in the story.
3 study points
Kṛṣṇa says to fix your mind and all your intelligence on Him. Then you will always live in Him, without doubt.
Prabhupāda explains that devotional service brings a direct relationship with Kṛṣṇa, beyond the material plane from the very beginning.
Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, knowing that the Lord and His holy name are nondifferent.
Perform devotional service by thinking exclusively of Krishna
Fix mind upon Me
Engage all your intelligence in Me
Benefit – You will ‘live in Me’ always without a doubt
Devotee is transcendental from very beginning — Lives in Krishna without a doubt
In devotional service one lives in direct relationship with Supreme Lord
Not lives on a material plane, but lives in Krishna
When one chants the Holy name (Holy Name and Krishna are non-different ), Krishna and internal potency dances on the tongue
When the devotee honours prasadam he becomes ‘Krishna-ized’
Service gives realizations — One who does not engage in such service, cannot understand how it is possible, although the process is there in the Bhagavad-gita and other Vedic literatures
One lives within Krishna by continuously fixing one’s mind and intelligence upon Him (12.8)
One practices the regulative principles of bhakti-yoga to increase one’s desire and ability to remember and obtain Krishna (12.9)
One surrenders one’s work to Krishna (12.10)
One gives up the result of one’s work to some good cause (12.11)
One cultivates meditation or knowledge (12.12)
Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.
The spiritual concepts this verse connects to.
Key ideas: bhakti, śaraṇāgati.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does BG 12.8 establish in Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport, and how does it connect to bhakti & surrender?
Offer one act today with devotion.
Mahābhārata episodes and stories from the purports that shed light on this verse.
Keep going: verses that carry this teaching further.
Study notes are editorial summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport.