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Chapter 8 · Verse 14
🪈 Krishna speaks
Illustration for Chapter 8, Verse 14

अनन्यचेताः सततं यो मां स्मरति नित्यशः। तस्याहं सुलभः पार्थ नित्ययुक्तस्य योगिनः॥

ananyacetāḥ satataṁ yo māṁ smarati nityaśaḥ | tasyāhaṁ sulabhaḥ pārtha nityayuktasya yoginaḥ ||

Word by Word 12 words
अनन्यचेताः
an not anya other cit to think, to be aware) — cetas (mind

one whose mind is on nothing else

सततम्
sa with tan to stretch, to continue) — satata (continuous

constantly, without a break

यः
yad who

the one who

माम्
mad I, me

Me

स्मरति
smṛ to remember

remembers

नित्यशः
nitya always, constant

every single day, always

तस्य
tad that, his

for him, of that one

अहम्
aham I

I

सुलभः
su easily labh to attain, to get

easy to reach, easily attained

पार्थ
pṛthā Pritha, Arjuna's mother) — pārtha (son of Pritha

O Partha — a name for Arjuna

नित्ययुक्तस्य
nitya always yuj to join, to yoke) — yukta (joined, devoted

of the one ever-joined in yoga

योगिनः
yuj to join, to unite) — yogin (one who is united

of the yogi, of the one who is connected

gives a gentle promise. For the one who remembers Me all the time, with a mind that does not wander off to other things, I am easy to reach. When someone keeps Me always in their heart, I am never far away — love makes the distance small.

कथा

The Easiest Door to Knock On

An original story

It was the last afternoon of the school holidays, and Aarav was helping Dadu sort the fishing net on the verandah, untangling the floats from the cork line. The work was slow, and his thoughts kept drifting — but always to the same place.

"You keep smiling at the net," Dadu said. "What's so funny about a net?"

"Nothing," Aarav laughed. "I was thinking about Manoj. We're going to build a kite tomorrow, a real big one, with a tail made of rags." He grinned. "I've been thinking about it all day, actually. During lunch. During my nap. Even while I was sorting the floats."

"All day," Dadu repeated, amused. "And tell me — if you wanted to go to Manoj's house right now, how hard would that be?"

Aarav shrugged. "Easy. I know exactly which lane, which gate, which window is his. I could run there with my eyes shut."

"And the boy who moved away last year — Sandeep — could you go to his new house?"

Aarav thought. "No. I don't even know which town he's in now. I haven't thought about him in months."

Dadu nodded slowly, the way he did when a small thing was about to become a big thing. "There it is. The friend you think of all day is the easiest to run to. You know the road by heart because your heart already walks it. The one you've forgotten — his door is hard to find, even if he lives close by."

He set down a tangle of net. "It's the same with God, Aarav. People say the Lord is far away, hidden, hard to reach. But says the very opposite. For the one who remembers Him all the time — every day, without his mind wandering off — He becomes the easiest door to knock on. Not because God moves closer. Because your heart already knows the road."

Aarav looked down at the floats in his lap. "So remembering is like walking the road, over and over, until I don't even have to think about the way."

"Until you could run there with your eyes shut," Dadu said, and handed him the next knot to untangle.

That night, before he slept, Aarav tried it — he held one warm, grateful thought in his mind the way he held the thought of the kite, and let himself walk that road just a little before he drifted off.

चिन्तनम्

Who or what do you think about most during the day? When something fills your mind often, it becomes easy to return to. What good thing would you like to make that easy?