Bhagavatgita a detailed study chapter12 Bhakthiyoga

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6. ye thu sarvaaNi karmaaNi mayi sannyasya mathparaaH

Ananyenaivayogena maam Dhyaayantha upaasthe

 

Those who offer

all their actions to Me, engrossed in Me,contemplate on Me and worship Me,

 

7. theshaam aham samudDharthaa

mrthyusamsaarasaagaraath

 

Bhavami na

chiraath paarTha mayyaaveSithachethasaam

 

I become their uplifter,

whose mind is fixed on Me, Arjuna, from the sea of death and transmigration

 

He says, `I

become the redeemer of those, who offer

all their actions to me, always think of Me with undivided attention on Me as

their goal, and rescue them from the ocean of samsara, the cycle of

iransmigration.' He becomes the boat to cross the sea of samsara to those who

surrender to Him all their thoughts words and deeds with the attitude `kaayena vaachaa manasendhriyairva

budhdhyaathmanaa vaa prakrthersvabhaavaath karomi yatyat sakalm parasmai

Narayanaayethi samarpayaami.' This is the meaning of mayyaavesitha chethasaam.

 

8. mayyevamana aadhathsva mayi budDhim nivesaya

 

Nivasishyasi

mayyeva atha oorDhvam na samSayaH

 

Fix your mind

on Me direct your intellect towards Me and then you will reaide in Me and there

is no more doubt about this.

 

Then Krishna advises Arjuna to follow the path of bhakthi. He

says, `If you fix your mind on Me alone, with all your thoughts absorbed in

Me you will dwell in Me . There is no

doubt about this.' Whatever one does thinks or sees, there should be a

persistent thought flow about the Lord like the trickle of oil, thailadharavat at the back of the mind.

This is ananya bhakthi..

 

How is this possible. One has to

discharge his duties towards his family and perform the work assigned to him in

this world by society as a householder. Sri

Ramakrishna gives a beautiful example to illustrate this. When a servant

woman is looking after her ward she does her work sincerely and with involvement.

But at the back of her mind is the thought of her child whom she has left

behind and the moment her duties are over she hurries to her house to care for

her child. This should be the attitude, when you are engrossed in your worldly

affairs, towards God.

 

Whatever we do

we have to do it with full concentration as all work is that of the Lord. But

whenever there is a gap we must fill it with the thought of the Lord. To give a

simple example when you wait for the

milk to boil or stop the car at the traffic signal think about the Lord in the

meantime instead of other thoughts. This will help you to avoid worries and

fretting and fuming over things that do not materialize. This will come through

practice and Krishna is giving the formula to

do it in the next few slokas.

 

These three

slokas reflect the instruction slokas

earlier namely ananyaaschithayantho maam and yathkaroshi yadhaSnaasi (Ch.9.22and27)