Devanagari
यथा सङ्कल्पयेद् बुद्ध्या यदा वा मत्पर: पुमान् ।
मयि सत्ये मनो युञ्जंस्तथा तत् समुपाश्नुते ॥ २६ ॥
Verse text
yathā saṅkalpayed buddhyā
yadā vā mat-paraḥ pumān
mayi satye mano yuṣjaṁs
tathā tat samupāśnute
Synonyms
yathā
—
by which means
;
saṅkalpayet
—
one may determine or resolve
;
buddhyā
—
by the mind
;
yadā
—
when
;
vā
—
or
;
mat
—
paraḥ — having faith in Me
;
pumān
—
the yogī
;
mayi
—
in Me
;
satye
—
whose desire always becomes truth
;
manaḥ
—
the mind
;
yuṣjan
—
absorbing
;
tathā
—
by that means
;
tat
—
that very purpose
;
samupāśnute
—
he obtains .
Translation
A yogī who has faith in Me, absorbing his mind in Me and knowing that My purpose is always fulfilled, will always achieve his purpose by the very means he has determined to follow.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
A yogī who has faith in me, absorbing his mind in me, the fulfiller of all desires, will achieve his desired object by that very means.
Whatever one desires in season or out of season (yadā vā), one attains by absorbing the mind in me, who fulfills all desires (satye). Another version has yathā vā. Then the meaning is “Whatever one desires, by whatever means one surrenders to me (mat-paraḥ), absorbing the mind in me, fulfiller of desires, one attains the desired object by that means.” This siddhi is called saṅkalpa-siddhi,
Purport
In this verse the word
yadā
(“whenever”) indicates that by the mystic power called
yathā-saṅkalpa-saṁsiddhi
one will achieve one’s objective even if one pursues it at an inauspicious time. Lord Kṛṣṇa is called
satya-saṅkalpa,
or He whose desire, intention, purpose or resolve always comes to pass.
Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura mentions that one should determine to revive one’s lost relationship with the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa through the infallible means of devotional service, which can be executed at any time or in any place. There are many books giving proper guidance for achieving Lord Kṛṣṇa, and the following are mentioned: Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī’s
Saṅkalpa-kalpavṛkṣa,
Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja’s
Śrī Govinda-līlāmṛta,
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī’s
Śrī Kṛṣṇa-bhāvanāmṛta
and
Saṅkalpa-kalpadruma,
and Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s
Śrī Gaurāṅga-smaraṇa-maṅgala.
In the modern age, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda has given us over sixty large volumes of transcendental literature, which can fix us firmly on the path back home, back to Godhead. Our
saṅkalpa,
or determination, should be practical and not useless. We should resolve to make a permanent solution to the problems of life by going back home, back to Godhead.