Bhagavad Gita 8.12
सर्वद्वाराणि संयम्य मनो हृदि निरुध्य च। मूर्ध्न्याधायात्मनः प्राणमास्थितो योगधारणाम्।।8.12।।
sarvadvārāṇi saṃyamya mano hṛdi nirudhya ca| mūrdhnyādhāyātmanaḥ prāṇamāsthito yogadhāraṇām||8.12||
Word by word
- सर्वद्वाराणि
- all the gates (of the body, i.e., the senses)
- संयम्य
- having restrained/controlled
- मनः
- the mind
- हृदि
- in the heart
- निरुध्य
- having confined/enclosed
- च
- and
- मूर्ध्नि
- in the head/crown
- आधाय
- having fixed/placed
- आत्मनः
- of oneself/one's own
- प्राणम्
- the life-breath
- आस्थितः
- situated/established in
- योगधारणाम्
- the yogic concentration/fixed practice of yoga
Commentary
12-13. Having closed all the gates, having confined mind in the heart, having fixed his life- breath in the head, engaged in firm Yoga, uttering Brahman, the one-syllabled 'Om,' thinking of Me3 whoso departs, leaving the body, he reaches the Supreme Goal*
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain (verses 12-13 discussed as one combined teaching in the source)
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