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Chapter 12
So long as, the intellect attaches importance to the world, and me mind thinks of the world, a man should think that (in spite of being established in God, naturally) he is established, in the world. This establishment or attachment to the world, leads him to the cycle of birth and death.
Therefore, by removing his doubt, the Lord exhorts Arjuna not to worry about his situation, after he has fixed his mind and intellect in Him. As soon as, his mind and intellect are fixed in Him alone; he will undoubtedly, reside in Him.
A striver's, only duty is to fix his mind and intellect, in God. When his mind is fixed on God, he will not think of the world, and when his intellect is fixed in God, he will not depend on the world. Thus, without thinking of the world and without depending on it, he will think of God and depend on Him and it will lead him, to God-realization.
Here Citta (the faculty of cognition), should also be included in the 'mind', and 'egoism', should be included in 'intellect', because without fixing Citta (the faculty of cognition) and egoism, it cannot be said, "Thou shalt live in Me alone."
The soul is a fragment of God, Who is the only master of the entire universe. But, It attracts, a fragment of the world, (body, senses, mind and intellect etc.,) towards It, by regarding them as Its own (Gita 15/7) i.e., It becomes their master. It forgets, that being a fragment of God It always remains fixed in Him, but It has accepted Its separate existence, in the same way, as a foolish son in spite of being, an heir to his multi-millionaire father's entire property and riches, by being separate from him, regards a flat of a huge building, as his own. But, when the son, realizes his mistake, he comes to know the reality that he is the heir to his father's entire property. So the Lord declares, that as soon as, he surrenders the so-called mind and intellect, to Him (which are really His as He is the owner of the entire universe, including the mind and intellect), he, being free from attachment to the mind and intellect, will live in Him, undoubtedly (because in fact he being His fragment, already lives in Him).
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