Verse 8.8

Verse 8.8: “With the mind attuned by the practice of Yogic concentration, and not wandering astray, he, ever thinking of the Person, Supreme and Divine, attains to Him. (81)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

By dint of constant study in this way, the Yoga of Actions makes the mind clean and firm. And such a devoted Yogi, like a cripple on the strength of the practised skill climbing a mountain, climbs the path of the Supreme Brahman, by constant study of the Yoga of Actions, not caring in the least if the mind and body survive or perish. Who cares to recollect whether the body exists or departs, once the mind that holds the power of divine perfection, is concentrated on the highest self? Does the water flowing along the course of the river and ultimately falling into the sea, ever think of turning back to see how things left behind, are getting on? It never does that, but gets one with the sea. In that way the mind also becomes the very sentience, where end all the births and all the deaths, and which is in essence the one all-pervading Supreme Bliss.