Verse 8.6

यं यं वापि स्मरन्भावं त्यजत्यन्ते कलेवरम् ।

तं तमेवैति कौन्तेय सदा तद्भावभावितः ॥

8.6

Transliteration

yaṃ yaṃ vāpi smaranbhāvaṃ tyajatyante kalevaram |

taṃ tamevaiti kaunteya sadā tadbhāvabhāvitaḥ ||

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Translation

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

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Word by word

whatever
whatever
or
even
remembering
state of being
gives up
at the end
the body

that
that very
alone
attains
O son of Kunti
always
absorbed in that state

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explanation

Krishna states a general principle. Whatever state of being a person remembers when leaving the body at the end, that is the state they attain, because they have always been absorbed in it. The phrase sadā tad-bhāva-bhāvitaḥ, always shaped by that state, is the key. The last thought is not a sudden choice but the fruit of habitual attention. A life spent dwelling on certain things naturally ends with those things in mind. The verse explains why daily orientation matters so much.