Bhagavad Gītā › Chapter 3 › Verse 30
Bhagavad Gītā 3.30: Offer it all to me
मयि सर्वाणि कर्माणि संन्यस्याध्यात्मचेतसा ।
निराशीर्निर्ममो भूत्वा युध्यस्व विगतज्वरः ॥
mayi sarvāṇi karmāṇi saṃnyasyādhyātmacetasā
nirāśīrnirmamo bhūtvā yudhyasva vigatajvaraḥ
Recitation: NehalDaveND (Wikimedia Commons) · CC BY-SA 4.0, adapted, original recording
Meaning
Surrendering all actions to Me, with your mind on the Self, free from expectation and possessiveness, fight, your fever gone. The verse gathers the chapter into a devotional form: action offered to the Lord, without hope of reward or sense of ownership, frees one from the anxiety (jvara) that clouds the mind.
For children
Krishna says: “Give all your work to me as a gift. Don’t worry about what you will get. Then you can do your job calmly.”
Kṛṣṇa brings the teaching back to Arjuna’s situation: act, offering everything to him.
Word by word
मयि सर्वाणि कर्माणि — Offering all your actions to me
- mayi: in me, to me
- sarvāṇi: all
- karmāṇi: actions
संन्यस्याध्यात्मचेतसा — with your mind fixed on the Self
- saṃnyasya: handing over, offering
- adhyātmacetas: a mind fixed on the Self
निराशीर्निर्ममो भूत्वा — free of craving and of “mine”
- nirāśis: free of craving
- nirmama: free of “mine”
- bhūtvā: having become
युध्यस्व विगतज्वरः — fight, with your fever of worry gone
- yudhyasva: fight!
- vigatajvara: with fever gone, calm
Kṛṣṇa speaks this verse. The Sanskrit is checked against four editions; meanings and word notes are simple learning aids written for MahaPrabha Gurukul, awaiting review by a Sanskrit teacher.