यत्करोषि यदश्नासि यज्जुहोषि ददासि यत् ।
यत्तपस्यसि कौन्तेय तत्कुरुष्व मदर्पणम् ।। ९.२७ ।।

yat-karoṣi yad-aśnāsi yaj-juhoṣi dadāsi yat |
yat-tapasyasi kaunteya tat-kuruṣva mad-arpaṇam || 9.27 ||

Making devotion a wholesome practice

If thus the focus of worship shifts from the material part and the associated processes, to the mind and its attitude, then why should worshipping, as a pursuit, depend upon any external factor at all? Can it not be made more wholesome and an all time practice – is an obvious question that comes naturally. Krishna senses it, and comes out with the next proposition which is equally inspiring and enlightening:

Whatever you do – the food you eat, the oblations you offer to fire, anything you give as dana, gift, or any austerity you perform – all that, must become a wholesome offering to the Supreme.

The act must have only one aim – that of offering to the Supreme. This is clearly an attitude the mind has to generate and preserve. It should revolve round the one Supreme Presence, Being and Power. One’s own mind and heart is its pivot, and the whole universe, the entire creation is the circle drawn from it.