Gita Bhashya -Sankara 363

Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya

(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)

CHAPTER -9

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Satatam kirtayanto mām yatantaśca drdha-vratāh
Namasyantaśca mām bhaktyā nitya-yuktā upāsate

14. Always glorifying Me and striving with firm resolve, bowing to Me in devotion, always steadfast they worship Me.

Always glorifying Me, the Lord (Bhagavān), the very Brahman, and striving, through subjugation of the senses, control of the mind and body cultivating compassion and harmlessness and other virtues with firm resolve, steady in their resolve (or vows) bowing down to Me, the Lord the Self, lying in the heart, in devotion, remaining always steadfast, they worship, resort to, Me.

The Lord speaks of the different ways in which they worship:

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