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Bhagavad Gita 8.6

Chapter 8: Akshara Brahma Yoga (The Imperishable) · अक्षरब्रह्मयोग

यं यं वापि स्मरन्भावं त्यजत्यन्ते कलेवरम् ।तं तमेवैति कौन्तेय सदा तद्भावभावितः ॥

yaṃ yaṃ vāpi smaranbhāvaṃ tyajatyante kalevaram |taṃ tamevaiti kaunteya sadā tadbhāvabhāvitaḥ ||

Meaning of Gita 8.6 in English

Whatever a person thinks about when leaving the body, they go to that very state, because they have been absorbed in it all through life.

गीता 8.6 का हिंदी अर्थ

मनुष्य जिस भाव को याद करते हुए अंत में शरीर छोड़ता है, वह उसी भाव को प्राप्त होता है, क्योंकि जीवन भर वह उसी में डूबा रहा होता है।

what we think we becomehabits of minddeath

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The Sanskrit is public domain; the transliteration was generated for Saarthi. Meanings are original plain-language paraphrases, not a scholarly translation.