BG - 8.6

यं यं वापि स्मरन्भावं त्यजत्यन्ते कलेवरम्। तं तमेवैति कौन्तेय सदा तद्भावभावितः।।8.6।।

yaṁ yaṁ vāpi smaran bhāvaṁ tyajatyante kalevaram taṁ tam evaiti kaunteya sadā tad-bhāva-bhāvitaḥ

• yam yam - whatever
• vā - or
• api - even
• smaran - remembering
• bhāvam - remembrance
• tyajati - gives up
• ante - in the end
• kalevaram - the body
• tam - to that
• tam - to that
• eva - certainly
• eti - gets
• kaunteya - Arjun, the son of Kunti
• sadā - always
• tat - that
• bhāva-bhāvitaḥ - absorbed in contemplation

Translation

Whoever at the end leaves the body, thinking of any being, to that being only does he go, O son of Kunti (Arjuna), due to his constant thought of that being.

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