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Bhagavad Gita 12.9

अथ चित्तं समाधातुं न शक्नोषि मयि स्थिरम्।अभ्यासयोगेन ततो मामिच्छाप्तुं धनञ्जय॥

atha cittaṃ samādhātuṃ na śaknoṣi mayi sthiram |abhyāsayogena tato māmicchāptuṃ dhanañjaya ||

If you are unable to fix your mind steadily on Me, then seek to reach Me through the yoga of constant practice, O Arjuna.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

But if you cannot fix your mind firmly on Me, then, my beloved friend, try to do so through constant practice.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 12.9 · Vidya