📿 Shloka Collection

Sarvadharmaan Parityajya

Gita 18.66 Bhagavad Gita
📖 Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 18 — Moksha Sannyasa Yoga
सर्वधर्मान्परित्यज्य मामेकं शरणं व्रज ।
अहं त्वा सर्वपापेभ्यो मोक्षयिष्यामि मा शुचः ॥
Sarvadharmaan parityajya mam ekam sharanam vraja
Aham tva sarvapapebhyo mokshayishyami ma shuchah
सर्वधर्मान्
all dharmas, all duties and obligations
परित्यज्य
abandoning, leaving aside
माम्
Me, to Me
एकम्
alone, the one
शरणम्
refuge, shelter
व्रज
come, approach
अहम्
I
त्वा
you
सर्वपापेभ्यः
from all sins
मोक्षयिष्यामि
shall liberate, shall set free
मा शुचः
do not grieve

This is the Charama Shloka — the final, most sacred promise of the Bhagavad Gita. Eighteen chapters of teaching converge into a single sentence: let go of everything else and come to Me. I will take care of the rest.

Imagine a child overwhelmed by something too big for them — a problem they cannot solve, a weight they cannot carry. They have tried every way they know. And then a loving elder says: put it all down, come here, I will handle it. That is the voice speaking in this shloka. Krishna is not asking Arjuna to be strong enough to solve everything on his own. He is asking Arjuna to stop trying to carry it all — and simply come.

The last two words — 'ma shuchah,' do not grieve — close a circle that began at the very start of the Gita. In Chapter 1, Arjuna collapsed in grief. Through eighteen chapters, Krishna has been addressing that grief from every angle: the nature of the self, the discipline of action, the vision of the cosmos, the paths of devotion and knowledge. And now, at the very end, He says simply: do not grieve. The entire Gita is the journey from that grief to this peace.

This shloka is from the eighteenth and final chapter, Moksha Sannyasa Yoga. After all the teachings — on karma, jnana, dhyana, bhakti, gunas, prakriti, and the cosmic form — Krishna distills the essence into one statement. The tradition calls this the 'Charama Shloka' — the ultimate verse, the highest and final word of the Gita.

The phrase 'sarva-dharmaan parityajya' does not mean to abandon morality or virtue. It means: stop placing your final trust in your own efforts, your own righteousness, your own calculations. Place that trust in the Divine instead. This is the Gita's definition of complete surrender — not passivity, but the transfer of refuge from the self to the Lord.

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