Mind and understanding in Me

mayyeva mana ādhatsva mayi buddhiṃ niveśayanivasiṣyasi mayyeva ata ūrdhvaṃ na saṃśayaḥ

Set your mind on Me alone. Let your understanding enter Me. Then you will live in Me from then on. There is no doubt.

What it means

Krishna gives the simplest instruction. Place your mind, manas, in me. Let your buddhi, your deeper understanding, settle in me too. Feelings and thinking both resting in him. Then, he says, you'll live in me. Na samshayah. There is no doubt.

The story

After all the complexity of the earlier chapters, Krishna offers Arjuna something beautifully simple. Think of me. Understand me. Live in me.

In your life

Think of someone so in love that every thought returns to their beloved. That's this verse. Choose one sacred thought or image to return to whenever your mind drifts today.