Lord Krishna

Divine Teacher

The Supreme Lord, the charioteer and divine guide of Arjuna. Krishna delivers the eternal wisdom of the Gita, revealing the nature of the soul, duty, and the path to liberation.

Speaking: Chapter 12, Verse 6

Verse 6

The Yoga of Devotion

But those who worship Me with exclusive devotion, surrendering all actions to Me, meditating on Me with undivided yoga—

Context & Meaning

Having acknowledged the difficulty of the impersonal path, Krishna now describes his preferred devotees more fully. Two characteristics stand out: they surrender all actions to Him (sarva-karmāṇi mayi saṃnyasya) and they worship with undivided, exclusive devotion (ananyena yogena). These are not two separate requirements but one: when all action is surrendered to God, the mind naturally becomes undivided. The surrender of action is the mechanism of devotional yoga.

Scholar Commentaries

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Ramanujacharya

Vishishtadvaita

Ananya — non-other, exclusive, without any other reference. The devotee who has surrendered all actions to God has no competing center of identity or interest. God becomes not one priority among many, but the sole reference point of all activity. This is not asceticism but transformation.