Chetasa Sarvakarmani

Four instructions in a single shloka — and together they form the complete practice of devotional action. First: surrender all actions to Me in your mind. Second: hold Me as your supreme goal. Third: rely on buddhi yoga — the yoga of clear discernment. Fourth: keep your mind absorbed in Me at all times.

Notice that Krishna does not ask Arjuna to feel a certain way or reach a certain emotional state. He asks for something practical: an inner alignment. A compass needle does not strain to point north — it is simply built that way. Krishna is asking Arjuna to orient his inner compass toward the Divine and let everything else follow.

The inclusion of 'buddhi yoga' matters. This is not blind emotion. Krishna wants devotion with clarity, surrender with understanding. The heart and the head work together.

This shloka echoes Gita 9.34 ('manmana bhav madbhakto') — the same four-fold instruction appears there. But here, near the end of the Gita, it arrives with the accumulated weight of everything that has been taught. The repetition is deliberate.

'Buddhi yoga' — the yoga of discerning wisdom — is not mere intellectual analysis. It is the faculty that allows a person to distinguish between what is permanent and what is passing, and to act accordingly.