श्रीभगवान्
In plain words
The Blessed Lord said: Those who fix their manas on Me, meditate on Me ever collected, and are endowed with supreme faith—I regard them as the foremost yogins.
Word for word
Having fixed manas in Me, those who, ever collected, meditate on Me, endowed with supreme faith: they [are] held by Me [to be] the foremost yogins.
मय्यावेश्य मनो ये मां नित्ययुक्ता उपासतेश्रद्धया परयोपेतास्ते मे युक्ततमा मताः
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The commentators
▸Bhagavadgītābhāṣyam
श्रीभगवान् उवाच — ये तु अक्षरोपासकाः सम्यग्दर्शिनः निवृत्तैषणाः, ते तावत् तिष्ठन्तु ; तान् प्रति यत् वक्तव्यम् , तत् उपरिष्टात् वक्ष्यामः । ये तु इतरे —
मयि विश्वरूपे परमेश्वरे आवेश्य समाधाय मनः, ये भक्ताः सन्तः, मां सर्वयोगेश्वराणाम् अधीश्वरं सर्वज्ञं विमुक्तरागादिक्लेशतिमिरदृष्टिम् , नित्ययुक्ताः अतीतानन्तराध्यायान्तोक्तश्लोकार्थन्यायेन सततयुक्ताः सन्तः उपासते श्रद्धया परया प्रकृष्टया उपेताः, ते मे मम मताः अभिप्रेताः युक्ततमाः इति । नैरन्तर्येण हि ते मच्चित्ततया अहोरात्रम् अतिवाहयन्ति । अतः युक्तं तान् प्रति युक्ततमाः इति वक्तुम् ॥ २ ॥
In plain words
The Lord said — Now those who worship the akṣara, the Imperishable itself; who see rightly; in whom every craving has already fallen away — set them aside for the moment. What needs to be said about them, we will say further on. But the others —
Those devotees who fix their minds completely on Me, on this universal form, the Supreme Lord — who worship Me, the ruler over every master of yoga, the one who knows everything, whose sight carries no shadow of attachment or any other affliction — who stay disciplined without a break, exactly as I already described in the last chapter, constantly engaged, filled with the deepest, most excellent faith — these are the ones I hold dear, the ones I regard as the most accomplished in yoga. Śaṅkara explains why: because, day and night, without any interruption, their minds stay fixed on Me. That is exactly why it is right to call them 'the most disciplined'.
Close to the Sanskrit
The Blessed Lord said — but those who are worshippers of the Imperishable, right-seers, whose cravings have ceased, let them for now remain; what is to be said with regard to them, that we shall say later on. But those others —
Having fixed, having concentrated, the mind on Me, the universal form, the Supreme Lord — those devotees who, being [such], worship Me, the sovereign over all masters of yoga, the omniscient one, whose vision is freed from the darkness of afflictions such as attachment — ever-disciplined, by the reasoning [given in] the meaning of the verse stated at the end of the immediately preceding chapter, constantly engaged, endowed with supreme, excellent faith — they are regarded, held dear, [considered] the most disciplined [in yoga] by Me, thus. For indeed, continuously, with their minds fixed on Me, they pass day and night. Therefore it is fitting to say of them 'the most disciplined'.