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“Shared remembrance keeps devotion alive.”
With minds fixed on Me and lives offered to Me, My devotees speak of Me to one another, and find continual joy in that shared devotion.
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Read literallywith minds on Me · with lives directed toward Me · instructing, enlightening · one another · speaking, telling · and · Me · always · they are satisfied · and · they delight · and
People devoted to Krishna keep their minds and lives focused on him. They talk about him together, and that shared remembrance brings them lasting joy.
Krishna speaks this verse, on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, in the chapter titled "Vibhuti Yoga" (The Yoga of Divine Glories).
Verse 9 sits in Chapter 10 of the Bhagavad Gita — Vibhuti Yoga, "The Yoga of Divine Glories". The chapter has 42 verses in total.
You leave a temple gathering or a retreat and the conversation keeps circling back to what moved you most. The feeling lasts because remembrance is being shared, not kept private.
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It shifts devotion from a private feeling into a living practice of shared remembrance and mutual encouragement.
What this verse means
People devoted to Krishna keep their minds and lives focused on him. They talk about him together, and that shared remembrance brings them lasting joy.
Context & commentary
In the middle of Krishna's teaching on devotion, he describes his own followers: they keep their minds on him, place their whole life in his care, and speak of him with each other. Their joy comes from continuous remembrance, not from external success.
Why this verse still matters
You leave a temple gathering or a retreat and the conversation keeps circling back to what moved you most. The feeling lasts because remembrance is being shared, not kept private.
“Devotion becomes easier when it is shared. Talking about what you love deepens the love.”
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