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TEXT 8 abhyasa-yoga-yuktena
SYNONYMS  abhyasa--practice;
yoga-yuktena--being engaged in meditation; cetasa--by the
mind and intelligence; na anya-gamina--without their being deviated;
paramam--the Supreme; purusam--Personality of Godhead; divyam--transcendental;
yati--achieves; partha--O son of Prtha; anucintayan--constantly
thinking of.
TRANSLATION He who meditates
on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, his mind constantly engaged in remembering
Me, undeviated from the path, he, O Partha [Arjuna], is sure to reach Me.
PURPORT In this verse
Lord Krsna stresses the importance of remembering Him. One's memory of
Krsna is revived by chanting the maha-mantra, Hare Krsna. By this
practice of chanting and hearing the sound vibration of the Supreme Lord,
one's ear, tongue and mind are engaged. This mystic meditation is very
easy to practice, and it helps one attain the Supreme Lord. Purusam
means enjoyer. Although living entities belong to the marginal energy of
the Supreme Lord, they are in material contamination. They think themselves
enjoyers, but they are not the supreme enjoyer. Here it is clearly stated
that the supreme enjoyer is the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His different
manifestations and plenary expansions as Narayana, Vasudeva, etc.
The devotees
can constantly think of the object of worship, the Supreme Lord, in any
of His features--Narayana, Krsna, Rama, etc., by chanting Hare Krsna. This
practice will purify him, and at the end of his life, due to his constant
chanting, he will be transferred to the kingdom of God. Yoga practice
is meditation on the Supersoul within; similarly, by chanting Hare Krsna
one fixes his mind always on the Supreme Lord. The mind is fickle, and
therefore it is necessary to engage the mind by force to think of Krsna.
One example often given is that of the caterpillar that thinks of becoming
a butterfly and so is transformed into a butterfly in the same life. Similarly,
if we constantly think of Krsna, it is certain that at the end of our lives
we shall have the same bodily constitution as Krsna.
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