Verse 12.9

Verse 12.9: “In case thou art not able to steadily fix thy mind in Me, then, seek to attain Me, O Dhanamjaya, by the Yoga of Steady-practice. (104)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

Or should you not be able to deliver up in my Charge, in its entirety, your heart along with your mind and intellect, then do this viz., dedicate them to me at least for one moment out of the eight Prahars [Praharas] (periods of three hours) of the day. You will then feel an aversion for the sense-objects, during at least those moments when you are fully immersed in the trance of devotion. (And then) just as at the approach of the winter, the water level in rivers begins to get low, in the same way, your mind will liberate itself speedily from the bonds of mundane existence, and then just as the disc of the Moon loses her phases day by day, from the Full Moon day, and totally disappears on the Amavasya day (last day of the lunar month), in that way your heart, as it gradually sets itself loose from the senseobjects, will get into me and be one with me ultimately, Oh Son of Pandu. What is called the Yoga of steady-practice is only this very thing, and there is nothing (in the world) that cannot be attained, once it is realised. (It is) on the strength of this study that some walk in the air, while some tame tigers and serpents; some digest poison, while some wade through the sea. (There are) some who on the strength of this study make the Vedas their own. Therefore, there is nothing entirely difficult to secure by study, and therefore, you do attain unto me by the (Yoga of) study.