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| Bhagavadgíta,-अष्टमोऽध्यायः । अक्षरब्रह्मयोगः , (S.-1, Ch.-8, V.-7-8) |
तस्मात्सर्वेषु कालेषु मामनुस्मर युध्य च ।मय्यर्पितमनोबुद्धिर्मामेवैष्यस्यसंशयः ॥ ८-७॥संशयम्अ भ्यासयोगयुक्तेन चेतसा नान्यगामिना ।परमं पुरुषं दिव्यं याति पार्थानुचिन्तयन् ॥ ८-८॥ |
tasmātsarveṣu kāleṣu māmanusmara yudhya ca । mayyarpitamanobuddhirmāmevaiṣyasyasaṃśayaḥ ॥ 8-7॥ saṃśayam abhyāsayogayuktena cetasā nānyagāminā । paramaṃ puruṣaṃ divyaṃ yāti pārthānucintayan ॥ 8-8॥ |
Be without doubt that the Universe is alive. |
tasmat - from this, therefore [i.e., from the previous verse]. sarveṣu - always. kāleṣu - at all times. mam - Me [Krishna] anusmara - remember! think of! yudhya - play your role! [fight, in Arjuna's case] ca - and. mayi - on me, in me. arpita - to dedicate, give up, entrust, surrender manobuddhir - mind and intelligence mam - Me [Krishna] eva - indeed iṣyasyasaṃ - thou shalt come, thou shalt attain. aśamsaḥ - without doubt, surely. saṃśayam - doubt abhyasa - practice, performance, training. yoga - connection yuktena - by one who is disciplined. chetasa - by thought, by mind. na - not. anya - other. gamina - by going toward, by going. paramam - to the Supreme, the Highest. puruṣaṃ - Spirit, Soul, Person. divyam - divine, heavenly. yati - he, she, it, one goes. partha - Son of Prthvi, epithet of Arjuna. anucintayan - meditating, thinking of.
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Therefore always think of Me at all times and also play your role, fight on. In this way,
having surrendered your mind and intellect unto Me, you shall certainly attain Me
without doubt. ||8-7||
O Partha! The person, whose mind is held constant in the form of the practice
of yoga and always remains in the thought of the Lord, attains only the
eternal divine Supreme Lord. ||8-8||
The last verse explained that at the moment of departure from the body, whatever is in mind determines what will happen next.
One should do one's duty, play one's role, and live in accordance with the Creator. In our ignorance, we believe that we have made ourselves, our own live, but that is incorrect. We believe we ourselves are responsible for everything that happens in the world and we do not understand that we play no role in what happens. This is like if a hedgehog were to crawl alongside a car and imagine that he is the reason the car is moving. This is the kind of false notion that we have. This leads us to understand nothing about why things happen, to worry about why something has happened the way it has and not otherwise. If we would reflect on how much we have ever influenced anything, we would understand that this is the case - we do not even name ourselves, somebody else gives us our names. We are proud of what others give us even though it has nothing do with us. Everything that I know or know how to do is also not my own invention. For example, in the army, the special forces unit believes that they are indestructible because of everything they have been trained to do, but even the talents for which they were chosen to participate in that training do not come from them, they were born with those capacities. The absolutely false impression is to believe that the actions we are involved in generate from us - they are not our own. Once you realize this you will understand that you are not the cause of what is happening and that we should do what is to be done without believing that it comes from us and without identifying our egos with it. When we recall this idea while we perform the actions that are required, when we recall that the Creator is the one who set everything in motion, then at the last moment of our lives we can remember the Creator easily. We must realize that we are just the hedgehog and that there is no connection between us and the cars zipping by. That is the arpita, dedicating, giving up, entrusting oneself to this understanding 100 % without any doubts. There is a flow to the Universe, there is Brahma who has always been and always will be, and we must not doubt this. The constant training and connection is what will automatically become our firmly held belief, just as we believe our names are what they are because our mothers said them to us a million times. Unfortunately today we do not like to practice or train, we believe that if we have read or tried something once we already get it. We must be sure of what we know and do not know, and we must focus on what we do not know yet and learn it, but we do not do this. Unless we do this we will always live in the dark. There is no other way to do this. The mind must learn how to become fully absorbed in a single focus. The abhyas, practice and training, is what the focus is of this entire work. Without it, one is lost and lives in a maze one's entire life. The way to get rid of doubt is to be fully absorbed in practice and to understand that we are not our names, or our bodies, or our families, or our stuff. The best prayer to make is the one where we ask for all our doubts to be erased. Doubt keeps us stuck in the mud. We are able to doubt anything, even our own mothers, even those who feed us, even the source of our awareness. We perfect our capacity for doubts and therefore we suffer. Once we abandon our identities and our doubts, then our problems disappear.