Shloka 7

Devanagari script

भवामि नचिरात्‌ पार्थ मय्यावेशितचेतसाम्‌,हे अर्जुन! उन मुझमें चित्त लगानेवाले प्रेमी भक्तोंका मैं शीघ्र ही मृत्युरूप संसार- समुद्रसे उद्धार करनेवाला होता हूँ:

Transliteration

bhavāmi nacirāt pārtha mayy āveśita-cetasām | he arjuna! teṣāṁ mayi cittaṁ niveśitavatāṁ premṇā bhaktānāṁ ahaṁ śīghraṁ mṛtyu-rūpāt saṁsāra-samudrāt uddhartā bhavāmi ||

Translation

হে পার্থ! যাদের চিত্ত আমার মধ্যে নিবিষ্ট, তাদের আমি অচিরেই মৃত্যুরূপ সংসার-সাগর থেকে উদ্ধারকারী হই।

Word by Word

भवामिI become / I am

नnot

चिरात्after a long time

पार्थO son of Pritha (Arjuna)

मयिin me

आवेशितfixed/absorbed (placed)

चेतसाम्of (those) minds

Speaker

अजुन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Arjuna (Pārtha)

Śrī Kṛṣṇa (implied speaker in the verse content)

saṁsāra-samudra (ocean of worldly existence)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Single-minded loving devotion (bhakti) draws divine grace: when the devotee’s mind is absorbed in the Lord, the Lord Himself becomes the swift deliverer from saṁsāra, portrayed as a death-filled ocean.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the midst of the Kurukṣetra setting, instruction is being given to Arjuna: the speaker assures him that devotees who fix their consciousness in the divine are not left to struggle alone—divine intervention carries them across the peril of mortal existence.