Chapter 9 — Rajvidya Rajguha Yoga

Verse 22
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka

ananyāścintayanto māṁ ye janāḥ paryupāsate

teṣāṁ nityābhiyuktānāṁ yogakşemam vahāmyaham

🕉 English Translation

Meri he bhakti mein mann ko laga,

Jo chintan kare mera he sada.

Nirantar jo mujh main lage rehte hain,

Puraa karun yogkshema unka main.

📜 Translation English

Those devotees who worship Me well, making Me alone the whole object of their thought. Those ever steadfast devotees who are dedicated to Me I secure for them what they do not have and preserve what they have.

💬 Commentary English

This verse of the Gita is a supreme, great assurance of the Lord for the devotee. This spiritual inspiration situated in the middle of this scripture is an invincible weapon for carefreeness in devotion. Anxiety and meditation cannot continue simultaneously. That anxiety should coexist inside with divine contemplation; how is it possible? When and where has the sun and darkness ever met and how can they ever meet? In any case, the result of real devotion is to be worry free.

The Blessed Lord says that you meditate on Me, taking Me to be the sole object of your thought and I will take care of whatever you lack and preserve your acquisitions. We instead of meditating get entangled in the worries somewhere or the other, even by performing prayer and reading the scriptures, chanting, austerities, worship adoration we do not experience any meaningful result. This state is absolutely clear! If you worry, the Lord will remain indifferent; He is an impartial and uninvolved power. If you have to make this impartial power partial towards yourself then the direct way is to meditate on Him excluding everything else; leave the worries to Him. From Him there is an open assurance:

This is not just an empty assurance. This has happened in the life of several devotees. Many great souls became carefree on keeping this verse in their mind. They engaged in conduct but without mental tension and wo worry. They were steadfast in divine contemplation with single-mindedness. In whose spirit they are immersed and towards whom they are dedicated, He is the one who knows what is to happen further! The necessity is this only and it is the state of single-minded devotion. In the mind there is no thought of anything else, no anxiety with respect to the past or the future; when all are in Him and He in all then what kind of anxiety exists and leaving aside such the Lord on whom thoughts are to dwell upon!

Think and deliberate, and without delay abandon the narrow emotions of egoism, clinging and desire for fruits. On becoming His why worry...why? Make your mind constantly dwell in Him; this is the true devotion. Where else will you get such a noble assurance-'yogsksemam vahmyaham' I take upon myself the preservation of the acquisition and procurement of the needs of My dedicated loving devotee. I do not allow Him to worry about the attainment of the unattained and preservation of the attained; this work I do Myself-'mai bhaktan ko das, bhakt mere mukutmani' I am the servant of the devotee and the devotee is the jewel of My crown! This is the glory of devotion, the dignity of single minded love. Salutations to such inspiration of the Gita and a several inner prostration to the loving and dear giver of such inspiration, the Krishna of the Gita! Caution is also given with such a high state simultaneously:

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