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महात्मानस्तु मां पार्थ दैवीं प्रकृतिमाश्रिताः। भजन्त्यनन्यमनसो ज्ञात्वा भूतादिमव्ययम्।।9.13।।

mahātmānas tu māṁ pārtha daivīṁ prakṛitim āśhritāḥ bhajantyananya-manaso jñātvā bhūtādim avyayam

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 9, Verse 13
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
But the great souls, O Arjuna, partaking of My divine nature, worship Me with a single-minded devotion, knowing Me as the imperishable source of all beings.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: but great souls, resorting to the divine nature, worship Krishna with an undistracted mind, knowing him as the imperishable source of all beings, describing the opposite outcome from a correct, deeper recognition instead of the earlier error.

In life: correctly recognizing someone's, or your own, deeper capacity and worth tends to produce a very different, more generous and sustained kind of engagement than underestimation does.

Teaching: notice how differently you engage with a person or a task once you've genuinely recognized its deeper worth, compared to when you were operating on an earlier, more dismissive assessment.

mahā-ātmānaḥthe great souls
tubut
māmme
pārthaArjun, the son of Pritha
daivīm prakṛitimdivine energy
āśhritāḥtake shelter of
bhajantiengage in devotion
ananya-manasaḥwith mind fixed exclusively
jñātvāknowing
bhūtaall creation
ādimthe origin
avyayamimperishable

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
9.13 महात्मानः great souls? तु but? माम् Me? पार्थ O Partha? दैवीम् divine? प्रकृतिम् nature? आश्रिताः refuged (in)? भजन्ति worship? अनन्यमनसः with a mind devoted to nothing else? ज्ञात्वा having known? भूतादिम् the source of beings? अव्ययम् imperishable.Commentary Jnatva Bhutadimavyayam There is another interpretation -- knowing Me to be the source or the origin of beings and imperishable.Daivim Prakritim Divine or Sattvic nature. Those who are endowed with divine nature? and who possess selfrestraint? mercy? faith? purity? etc.Mahatmanah Or? the highsouled ones are those whose pure minds have been made by Me? as My special abode. I dwell in the pure minds of the highsouled ones. They have sincere devotion to Me. Those who possess divine Sattvic nature? who are endowed with a pure mind? and who have knowledge of the Self are Mahatmas.Bhutas All living beings? as well as the five elements.