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“Full trust and steady remembrance make devotion complete.”
Those who focus their mind on me, worship me with unwavering devotion, and are filled with supreme trust are, in my view, the highest yogis.
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Krishna says that the people who keep their mind on him, worship him steadily, and approach him with the highest trust are the best yogis.
Krishna speaks this verse, on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, in the chapter titled "Bhakti Yoga" (The Yoga of Devotion).
Verse 2 sits in Chapter 12 of the Bhagavad Gita — Bhakti Yoga, "The Yoga of Devotion". The chapter has 20 verses in total.
Outside an operating theatre, a mother repeats one name of God for three hours and thinks of nothing else. Krishna calls that kind of fixed, trusting attention the highest yoga.
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Krishna calls those who fix their mind on him with steady devotion and supreme trust the highest yogis.
What this verse means
Krishna says that the people who keep their mind on him, worship him steadily, and approach him with the highest trust are the best yogis.
Context & commentary
Arjuna asked which devotees are best: those devoted to Krishna's personal form or those who meditate on the formless absolute. Krishna answers by naming the devotee who keeps the mind on him, worships steadily, and trusts completely as the highest.
What it looks like today
Outside an operating theatre, a mother repeats one name of God for three hours and thinks of nothing else. Krishna calls that kind of fixed, trusting attention the highest yoga.
“Devotion is not second-rate. Full-hearted remembrance itself becomes the highest form of yoga.”
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