Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 11-14 from the Eighth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 8, Verse 11:

यदक्षरं वेदविदो वदन्ति

विशन्ति यद्यतयो वीतरागाः ।

यदिच्छन्तो ब्रह्मचर्यं चरन्ति

तत्ते पदं सङ्ग्रहेण प्रवक्ष्ये ॥ 11॥

yadakṣaraṃ vedavido vadanti

viśanti yadyatayo vītarāgāḥ

yadicchanto brahmacaryaṃ caranti

tatte padaṃ saṅgraheṇa pravakṣye

🔴That which is declared Imperishable by the VEDA -knowers; That into which, the self-controlled and desire-freed enter; That desiring which BRAHMCHARYA is practiced — That Goal I will declare to thee in brief.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 8, Verse 12:

सर्वद्वाराणि संयम्य मनो हृदि निरुध्य च ।

मूर्ध्न्याधायात्मनः प्राणमास्थितो योगधारणाम् ॥ 12॥

sarvadvārāṇi saṃyamya mano hṛdi nirudhya ca

mūrdhnyādhāyātmanaḥ prāṇamāsthito yogadhāraṇām

🔴Having closed all the gates, having confined the mind in the heart, having fixed the life-breath in the head engaged in the practice of concentration,

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 8, Verse 13:

ओमित्येकाक्षरं ब्रह्म व्याहरन्मामनुस्मरन् ।

यः प्रयाति त्यजन्देहं स याति परमां गतिम् ॥ 13॥

omityekākṣaraṃ brahma vyāharanmāmanusmaran

yaḥ prayāti tyajandehaṃ sa yāti paramāṃ gatim

🔴Uttering the one-syllabled OM — the (symbol of) BRAHMAN — and remembering Me, he who departs, leaving the body, attains the Supreme Goal.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 8, Verse 14:

अनन्यचेताः सततं यो मां स्मरति नित्यशः ।

तस्याहं सुलभः पार्थ नित्ययुक्तस्य योगिनः ॥ 14॥

ananyacetāḥ satataṃ yo māṃ smarati nityaśaḥ

tasyāhaṃ sulabhaḥ pārtha nityayuktasya yoginaḥ

🔴I am easily attainable by that ever-steadfast YOGI who constantly remembers Me daily, not thinking of anything else, O Partha.

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