Chapter 12 · Verse 6 · Bhakti Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 12.6
Sanskrit
ये तु सर्वाणि कर्माणि मयि संन्यस्य मत्पराः।अनन्येनैव योगेन मां ध्यायन्त उपासते।।12.6।।
Transliteration
ye tu sarvāṇi karmāṇi mayi sannyasya mat-paraḥ ananyenaiva yogena māṁ dhyāyanta upāsate
In plain words
You are carrying your burdens as though they belong to you alone—your marriage, your debts, your child's future, your career—and that weight is crushing you. Krishna says: offer everything you do to something larger than yourself, not to get what you want, but to be free from the need to control it. When you stop gripping the results and give your whole heart to the work itself, the work becomes prayer, and you become light.
Word by Word
Krishna reveals here the supreme path of bhakti—not the renunciation of action, but the consecration of all action to the Divine. When you offer every deed, every breath, every moment to the Lord with undivided heart, you transform the ordinary into the sacred, and work becomes worship.
This is the paradox the modern seeker must grasp: complete dedication to your responsibilities, freed from personal claim, is the fastest door to grace.
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Bhagavad Gita 12.6 — BG 12.6
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