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Bhagavad Gita 18.57

चेतसा सर्वकर्माणि मयि संन्यस्य मत्परः।बुद्धियोगमुपाश्रित्य मच्चित्तः सततं भव॥

cetasā sarvakarmāṇi mayi saṃnyasya matparaḥ |buddhiyogamupāśritya maccittaḥ satataṃ bhava ||

Mentally renouncing all actions in Me, having Me as the highest goal, and resorting to the yoga of discrimination, do thou ever fix thy mind on Me.

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

Surrender your actions to Me, live in Me, focus your intellect on Me, and always think of Me.

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.