Verse 18.57

Verse 18.57: “Having in thought dedicated: all activities unto Me—making Me thy final goal-and cultivating equanimity of spirit, do thou uninterruptedly fix thy mind in Me.

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

It is for this, Oh Dhananjaya, that you should renounce into myself all your actions in their entirety, viz. dedicate them all to Me. But that renunciation, Oh Warrior, should only be of such (actions) as could be renounced (and not such as the day-to-day and other enjoined actions as could not be renounced). You should engage your mind in the contemplation of the Self. On the strength of that contemplation you will be able to see clearly in Me your own self—as separated from the actions. You will also see as being far away from yourself that Prakriti-Maya (Illusion) which is the source (birth place) of activism.

Prakriti cannot however remain distinct from the self (soul) in the way the shadow cannot remain distint from the original object. In this way, when Maya (illusion) is destroyed, there will be brought about without any effort, complete renunciation of actions. Then, with the elimination of actions as a class, there will remain behind only ‘I’, the pure Self (soul), and then there will abide faithfully with the soul, the intellect as does a chaste wife. When the intellect thus abides wholly and with unswerving devotion in Me, the mind even begins to worship Me casting off its normal activity (fickleness). In that way you should always be doing something that will make (your) mind remain steady in Me, shearing it of all its wayward tendencies.