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Bhagavad Gita 12.6-7 — Ye Tu Sarvani Karmani

Bhagavad Gita 12.6-7 — Ye Tu Sarvani Karmani in English · English

🕉️ hindu·📿 11× repetitions·🕐 Morning devotion, evening worship, or whenever seeking refuge and deliverance·📜 Bhagavad Gita Chapter 12, Verse 6-7

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हिन्दी / देवनागरी తెలుగు தமிழ்ಕನ್ನಡ മലയാളം ગુજરાતી বাংলা ଓଡ଼ିଆ ਪੰਜਾਬੀEnglishසිංහල 𑌗𑍍𑌰𑌨𑍍𑌥

✦ Meaning

These two verses of the Bhakti Yoga chapter contain one of the Gita's most reassuring promises. To those who offer all their actions to Krishna, hold him as the supreme goal, and worship him with undivided devotion and meditation, the Lord himself vows to become their rescuer — swiftly lifting them out of the perilous ocean of birth and death. Loving, single-pointed surrender is met by God's personal grace and the gift of liberation.

Origin & Story

Bhagavad Gita Chapter 12, Verse 6-7 · Sage Veda Vyasa (Mahabharata, Bhishma Parva) · Ancient (text compiled c. 5th–2nd century BCE)

In the twelfth chapter, Bhakti Yoga, Arjuna asks whether the worshippers of the personal God or of the formless Absolute are more perfect in yoga. Krishna praises loving devotion to his personal form, and in these verses gives his tender promise: to those who offer all to him and meditate on him with undivided devotion, he himself becomes the swift deliverer from the ocean of mortal existence.

✦ As told in scripture

Devotees across the ages have clung to this promise in their darkest hours, and the tradition is filled with accounts of those who, surrendering all to the Lord, felt themselves lifted as if by an unseen hand from despair and danger — saints affirming that wherever the heart is wholly fixed on God, he keeps his word as the deliverer from the ocean of birth and death.

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Verse 1

ye tu sarvāṇi karmāṇi mayi sannyasya mat-paraḥ ananyenaiva yogena māṁ dhyāyanta upāsate

Meaning:But those who worship Me, offering all their actions to Me, holding Me as the supreme goal, and meditating on Me with single-minded devotion — for them, O Arjuna, whose minds are fixed on Me, I soon become the deliverer out of the ocean of birth and death.

Verse 2

teṣhām ahaṁ samuddhartā mṛityu-saṁsāra-sāgarāt bhavāmi na chirāt pārtha mayy āveśhita-chetasām

Word-by-Word Meaning

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ye🔊those who

tu🔊but, indeed

sarvāṇi karmāṇi🔊all actions

mayi🔊unto Me

sannyasya🔊renouncing, dedicating, offering

mat-paraḥ🔊regarding Me as the supreme goal

ananyena eva yogena🔊by exclusive, single-minded devotion

mām🔊on Me

dhyāyantaḥ🔊meditating

upāsate🔊worship

teṣhām🔊of those

aham🔊I

samuddhartā🔊the deliverer, the rescuer

mṛityu-saṁsāra-sāgarāt🔊from the ocean of birth and death (samsara)

bhavāmi🔊I become

na chirāt🔊before long, very soon

pārtha🔊O Partha (Arjuna)

mayi āveśhita-chetasām🔊of those whose minds are fixed on Me

Benefits of Chanting Bhagavad Gita 12.6-7 — Ye Tu Sarvani Karmani

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Assures the devotee of God's personal deliverance from samsara

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Reveals exclusive devotion (ananya bhakti) as the swift path to liberation

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Encourages offering all actions to the Lord as worship

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Grants courage and protection by trusting in God as the rescuer

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Deepens single-minded meditation and fixing the mind on the Divine

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Brings peace through complete surrender of the fruits of action

How to Chant Bhagavad Gita 12.6-7 — Ye Tu Sarvani Karmani

Repetitions11times

Best TimeMorning devotion, evening worship, or whenever seeking refuge and deliverance

Recite these verses with loving devotion, offering all your actions to the Lord and fixing your mind upon him as the supreme goal. Let the promise of deliverance fill you with trust and surrender. Chanted regularly with a single-pointed heart, they nurture exclusive devotion and the serene confidence that the Lord himself carries his devotees across the ocean of birth and death.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Yes — only the script changes; the words and their meaning are the original. The verse-by-verse meaning, benefits and how-to-chant guidance on this page apply exactly the same.

Krishna promises that those who dedicate all their actions to him, regard him as the supreme goal, and worship him with single-minded devotion and meditation will be personally delivered by him — swiftly lifted out of the ocean of birth and death. It is the Gita's assurance that loving surrender leads to liberation.

It is a vivid image for samsara — the endless, turbulent cycle of repeated birth, death and worldly suffering in which souls are tossed about. Krishna promises to be the 'samuddharta', the deliverer, who rescues his devotees from this ocean and grants them liberation.

Ananya bhakti — exclusive, undivided devotion. The devotee offers all actions to the Lord, takes him as the highest goal, meditates on him with single-minded focus, and fixes the mind wholly upon him. To such unwavering love, God responds with swift and certain grace.

By surrendering your actions to the Lord, making him your supreme aim, and worshipping him with a focused, loving heart. The verses assure that such single-pointed devotion is never in vain — the Lord himself becomes the rescuer who carries the devotee beyond samsara.