Sanskrit
यत्करोषि यदश्नासि यज्जुहोषि ददासि यत् । यत्तपस्यसि कौन्तेय तत्कुरुष्व मदर्पणम् ॥
yat karoṣi yad aśnāsi yaj juhoṣi dadāsi yat yat tapasyasi kaunteya tat kuruṣva madarpaṇam
Translation
Whatsoever thou doest, whatsoever thou eatest, whatsoever thou offerest, whatsoever thou givest, whatsoever thou doest of austerity, O Kaunteya, do thou that as an offering unto Me.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The instruction generalizes past ritual altogether: whatever you do, eat, sacrifice, give, or undertake as austerity — ordinary categories, not specifically religious ones — becomes an offering to Krishna. It’s the same non-attachment discipline taught at 2.47-2.48 and already applied to action specifically at 3.30 (“surrendering all actions to Me”), stretched here to cover literally every activity, including eating, so that no remaining domain of daily life sits outside the practice.
Concepts