श्रीभगवान्
In plain words
The Blessed Lord said: O Partha, with your mind attached to Me, practicing yoga and taking refuge in Me, hear how you shall know Me fully and without doubt.
Word for word
With mind fixed on Me, O Pārtha, practising yoga, taking refuge in Me, hear that: how you will know Me entire, without doubt.
मय्यासक्तमनाः पार्थ योगं युञ्जन्मदाश्रयःअसंशयं समग्रं मां यथा ज्ञास्यसि तच्छृणु
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▸Bhagavadgītābhāṣyam
‘योगिनामपि सर्वेषां मद्गतेनान्तरात्मना । श्रद्धावान्भजते यो मां स मे युक्ततमो मतः’(भ. गी. ६ । ४७) इति प्रश्नबीजम् उपन्यस्य, स्वयमेव ‘ईदृशं मदीयं तत्त्वम् , एवं मद्गतान्तरात्मा स्यात्’ इत्येतत् विवक्षुः श्रीभगवानुवाच —
मयि वक्ष्यमाणविशेषणे परमेश्वरे आसक्तं मनः यस्य सः मय्यासक्तमनाः, हे पार्थ योगं युञ्जन् मनःसमाधानं कुर्वन् , मदाश्रयः अहमेव परमेश्वरः आश्रयो यस्य सः मदाश्रयः । यो हि कश्चित् पुरुषार्थेन केनचित् अर्थी भवति स तत्साधनं कर्म अग्निहोत्रादि तपः दानं वा किञ्चित् आश्रयं प्रतिपद्यते, अयं तु योगी मामेव आश्रयं प्रतिपद्यते, हित्वा अन्यत् साधनान्तरं मय्येव आसक्तमनाः भवति । यः त्वं एवंभूतः सन् असंशयं समग्रं समस्तं विभूतिबलशक्त्यैश्वर्यादिगुणसम्पन्नं मां यथा येन प्रकारेण ज्ञास्यसि संशयमन्तरेण ‘एवमेव भगवान्’ इति, तत् शृणु उच्यमानं मया ॥ १ ॥
In plain words
He had already planted the seed of the question, back in that line: 'Of all yogins, the one whose inmost self has entered Me, who worships Me with faith — him I hold most deeply joined to Me' (Gītā 6.47). Now, unasked, He wants to say exactly this: 'This is what My reality is; and this is how your inmost self comes into Me.' And so the Blessed Lord spoke:
‘Fixed on Me’—Me, who am about to describe Myself, the Supreme Lord—whoever's mind rests there is called one whose mind is fixed on Me, Pārtha; practicing yoga, that is, composing his mind. ‘Whose refuge is Me’—I alone, the Supreme Lord, am his refuge, so he is one whose refuge is Me. Anyone who wants something through some human effort turns to a means for it—a fire-ritual, austerity, charity, some refuge or other. But this yogī turns to Me alone as his refuge; letting go of every other means, his mind rests on Me and nothing else. You, being someone like that, will come to know Me completely, wholly, endowed with glory, strength, power, sovereignty, and every such quality, beyond any doubt, exactly how—knowing ‘this, precisely, is the Blessed Lord’ with no doubt left at all. Listen now, as I tell it to you.
Close to the Sanskrit
Having set down the seed of the question — 'Of all yogins too, he who, with his inner self gone into Me, full of faith, worships Me, he is held by Me to be the most fully united' (Bhagavadgītā 6.47) — and himself, of His own accord, wishing to say just this: 'Such is My reality; and thus would one become one whose inner self has gone into Me' — the Blessed Lord said:
‘Fixed on Me’—Me, qualified by what is about to be described, the Supreme Lord—of whom the mind is fixed, he is ‘one whose mind is fixed on Me,’ O Pārtha; practicing yoga, i.e. making composure of mind; ‘whose refuge is Me’—I alone, the Supreme Lord, being the refuge of whom, he is ‘one whose refuge is Me.’ For whoever seeks something by some human aim, he resorts to that means for it—ritual action such as the Agnihotra, austerity, or charity—as some refuge; but this yogī resorts to Me alone as refuge; having abandoned any other means, he becomes ‘one of mind fixed on Me alone.’ You, being of such a nature, will know Me, entire, whole, endowed with the qualities of glory, strength, power, sovereignty and the rest, without any doubt, how, i.e. by what manner—knowing ‘exactly so is the Blessed Lord,’ without doubt—hear that, being told by Me.