8.14
अनन्यचेताः सततं यो मां स्मरति नित्यशः ।
तस्याहं सुलभः पार्थ नित्ययुक्तस्य योगिनः ॥
ananyacetāḥ satataṃ yo māṃ smarati nityaśaḥ
tasyāhaṃ sulabhaḥ pārtha nityayuktasya yoginaḥ
Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण) continues. The discipline of 8.12 is one way. This verse says he is easy to reach for a mind that does not go elsewhere.
The verse
I am easy to reach, son of Pṛthā (पृथा), for the yogin whose mind is nowhere else, who remembers me constantly and always, the one forever yoked.
नेपालीमा
मन अन्त कतै नभएको, मलाई निरन्तर र सधैँ सम्झने, सधैँ युक्त रहने योगीका लागि म पुग्न सजिलो छु, हे पृथापुत्र।
Where it sits
After the gates and the syllable, he refuses the idea that the goal is remote. The man of undivided remembering already has him within reach. 8.15 will say what that reach cancels: rebirth, the impermanent home of suffering.
Split: अनन्य-चेताः + सततम् + यः + माम् + स्मरति + नित्यशः + तस्य + अहम् + सुलभः + पार्थ + नित्य-युक्तस्य + योगिनः
ananya-cetāḥ + satatam + yaḥ + mām + smarati + nityaśaḥ + tasya + aham + sulabhaḥ + pārtha + nitya-yuktasya + yoginaḥ
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| देवनागरी | Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|---|
| अनन्य-चेताः | ananya-cetāḥ | nominative, bahuvrīhi (बहुव्रीहि) | whose mind is not on another. ananya (अनन्य) "not other," cetas (चेतस्) "mind." |
| सततम् | satatam | adverbial accusative | constantly. |
| यः | yaḥ | nominative | who. |
| माम् | mām | accusative | me. |
| स्मरति | smarati | present, 3rd singular | remembers. |
| नित्यशः | nityaśaḥ | indeclinable | always. The suffix -śas (शस्) makes an adverb. |
| तस्य | tasya | genitive | of him, for him. |
| अहम् | aham | nominative | I. |
| सुलभः | sulabhaḥ | nominative | easy to reach. su (सु) "well, easily," labha (लभ) "getting." |
| पार्थ | pārtha | vocative | son of Pṛthā (पृथा). |
| नित्य-युक्तस्य | nitya-yuktasya | genitive | of the one always yoked. |
| योगिनः | yoginaḥ | genitive of yogin (योगिन्) | of the yogin. |
The phrases
ananyacetāḥ satataṃ yaḥ māṃ smarati nityaśaḥ (अनन्यचेताः सततं यः मां स्मरति नित्यशः) is the man. Whose mind is nowhere else, who remembers me constantly, always. satatam (सततम्) and nityaśaḥ (नित्यशः) are two adverbs for the same uninterrupted remembering. This is sarveṣu kāleṣu (सर्वेषु कालेषु) from 8.7, said as a description instead of a command.
tasya ahaṃ sulabhaḥ (तस्य अहं सुलभः) is the claim. For him, I am easy to reach. The genitive is the person for whom. pārtha (पार्थ) is the address.
nityayuktasya yoginaḥ (नित्ययुक्तस्य योगिनः) repeats tasya (तस्य) in clearer nouns. Both genitives are the same man: the yogin who is always yoked. yoginaḥ (योगिनः) here is genitive singular. The plural verb is not in this verse. smarati (स्मरति) is singular, and so is yaḥ (यः).
Sanskrit in this line
A bahuvrīhi (बहुव्रीहि) whose last member is cetas (चेतस्) makes its nominative singular as cetāḥ (चेताः), the way sumanas (सुमनस्) makes sumanāḥ (सुमनाः). ananyacetāḥ (अनन्यचेताः) is one man, "he whose mind is not another's," not a plural. The long āḥ (आः) is the nominative of this kind of compound, not a plural ending you should count.
Say it back
Who remembers, and for whom he is easy. If sulabhaḥ (सुलभः) comes out as "I am obtained" with no "easy," or if ananyacetāḥ (अनन्यचेताः) is recited as a plural crowd, stay here.