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Chapter 12

Chapter 12 · Verse 7

Bhakti Yoga

भक्तियोग

तेषामहं समुद्धर्ता मृत्युसंसारसागरात् | भवामि नचिरात्पार्थ मय्यावेशितचेतसाम् ||१२-७||

teṣāmahaṃ samuddhartā mṛtyusaṃsārasāgarāt . bhavāmi nacirātpārtha mayyāveśitacetasām ||12-7||

In plain words

Mortal Samsara The round of birth and death. The devotee who does total unconditional and ungrudging selfsurrender to the Lord who places himself completely at the mercy of the Lord and who fixes of actions by offering them to the Lord and who thus destroys any power in the actions to bear fruit and who has abandoned even the idea of liberation is soon lifted by the Lord from the mortal plane to the abode of Immortality. I redeem such persons who have become Macchitta i.

Translation

12.7 Of those whose minds are thus focused on Me, I become soon their saviour from the ocean of mortal life.

Meaning

Mortal Samsara The round of birth and death. The devotee who does total unconditional and ungrudging selfsurrender to the Lord who places himself completely at the mercy of the Lord and who fixes of actions by offering them to the Lord and who thus destroys any power in the actions to bear fruit and who has abandoned even the idea of liberation is soon lifted by the Lord from the mortal plane to the abode of Immortality. I redeem such persons who have become Macchitta i.e. mind united with Me from the ocean of the mortal world or worldly life without delay. (Cf. X.10.11XII.6and7)

Word by word

तेषाम् for them अहम् I समुद्धर्ता the saviour मृत्युसंसारसागरात् out of the ocean of the mortal Samsara भवामि (I) become नचिरात् ere long पार्थ O Arjuna मयि in Me आवेशितचेतसाम् of those whose minds are set.