Sanskrit
मन्मना भव मद्भक्तो मद्याजी मां नमस्कुरु । मामेवैष्यसि युक्त्वैवमात्मानं मत्परायणः ॥
manmanā bhava madbhakto madyājī māṃ namaskuru mām evaiṣyasi yuktvaivam ātmānaṃ matparāyaṇaḥ
Translation
On Me fix thy mind, be devoted to Me; sacrifice to Me; prostrate thyself before Me; harmonised thus in the Self, thou shalt come unto Me, having Me as thy supreme goal.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The chapter’s argument closes on five direct commands — fix the mind, be devoted, sacrifice, prostrate, be harmonized — collapsing the entire ninth chapter’s teaching on devotion, offering, and destination into a practical sequence rather than a doctrine to contemplate. It’s close enough to 18.65, the Gita’s climactic restatement of this exact instruction near the poem’s end, that the repetition looks deliberate: this chapter previews in miniature the promise chapter 18 makes the capstone of the entire text. The chapter’s own title in the colophon — “the kingly science, the kingly secret” — is picked up structurally by the “most secret” (guhyatamam) framing that resurfaces explicitly in chapters 15 and 18, forming a thread of escalating disclosure through the second half of the text.