Chapter 12 · Verse 7 · Bhakti Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 12.7
Sanskrit
तेषामहं समुद्धर्ता मृत्युसंसारसागरात्।भवामि नचिरात्पार्थ मय्यावेशितचेतसाम्।।12.7।।
Transliteration
teṣhām ahaṁ samuddhartā mṛityu-saṁsāra-sāgarāt bhavāmi na chirāt pārtha mayy āveśhita-chetasām
In plain words
When you're drowning—in grief, in despair, in the weight of everything you're carrying—you don't need to fix yourself first or earn your way to safety. Krishna says he lifts out those whose hearts are set on him. That's about the soul's long journey, not a promise about any one problem. Turn your heart toward what is sacred anyway. It gives you somewhere to stand.
Word by Word
Lord Krishna makes an astonishing promise here: those who anchor their consciousness in Him are rescued from the drowning ocean of birth and death not through distant, merit-laden effort, but swiftly and directly. This is the supreme grace of bhakti—the moment your heart turns completely toward the Divine, the machinery of liberation begins.
For us today, this means that authentic spiritual transformation doesn't require perfection or decades of striving; it requires only the honest surrender of your whole attention to what matters most.
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Bhagavad Gita 12.7 — BG 12.7
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