bhagavadgīta 8.9
kaviṁ purāṇam anuśāsitāram aṇor aṇīyāṁsam anusmared yaḥ
sarvasya dhātāram acintya-rūpam āditya-varṇaṁ tamasaḥ parastāt
bhagavadgīta 8.10
prayāṇa-kāle manasācalena bhaktyā yukto yoga-balena caiva
bhruvor madhye prāṇam āveśya samyak sa taṁ paraṁ puruṣam upaiti divyam
Reordered Word-by-word meaning
yaḥ - Who (i.e. the aspirant) kaviṁ purāṇam - (Him who is) the All-knowing, Ancient,
anuśāsitāram - the One who regulates aṇor aṇīyāṁsam - the One pervading all including smaller than the smallest atom, sarvasya dhātāram - the One who supports everything,
acintya-rūpam - the One of a form beyond thought, tamasaḥ parastāt - beyond all darkness, āditya-varṇaṁ - effulgent like the sun, anusmared - (the man who) constantly remembers (Him with the aforementioned attributes)
saḥ - he ( ie the man who remembers), prayāṇa-kāle - at the time of death,
acalena manasā - with unflappable mind,bhaktyā yukto - endowed with Bhakti,
yoga-balena ca eva - and (this) only through the Power of Yoga,
prāṇam - his Life-breath bhruvor madhye - at the centre between eyebrows(ajna chakra), samyak āveśya - having totally focussed, taṁ paraṁ divyam puruṣam - Him, the ultimate, divine, Personality of Godhead upaiti - attains.
The Bhagavadgita, on a direct and unbiased reading, is a manual of yogic effort leading to enlightened devotion and surrender to the Personality of God-head. The entire code-formula of Bhagavadgita is stated in these two verses. Even a beginner like me can appreciate the clarity and emphasis of these two verses. The same idea runs through almost every chapter of the Gita in varying degrees with colourful restatements over and over again.
Swami Chinmayananda is reported to have said that even if India were to lose its entire civilisation and cultural foundation owing to some cataclysm, but these two verses were miraculously to survive, we could very well reconstruct our entire civilisation with the building blocks of insight, method and goal stated here as a formula!
Hari Om!
