विषयान् ध्यायतश्चित्तं विषयेषु विषज्जते ।
मामनुस्मरतश्चित्तं मय्येव प्रविलीयते ॥
viṣayān dhyāyataś cittaṁ viṣayeṣu visajjate |
mām anusmarataś cittaṁ mayy eva pravilīyate ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.14.27; cited in Bhakti Sandarbha: 278)
[Śrī Kṛṣṇa to Uddhava:] “A mind meditating upon the sense objects becomes greatly attached to the sense objects; a mind continuously remembering me becomes completely absorbed in me.”
Commentary
viṣaya-dhyānāsaktaṁ cittaṁ yathā viṣaya-mādhurya-nimagnaṁ dṛṣṭaṁ, tathaiva madīya-dhyānāsaktaṁ man-mādhurya-mātra-nimagnaṁ syāt |
(Excerpt from the Sārārtha-darśinī-ṭīkā)
“Just as a mind attached to meditation on the sense objects is seen to be absorbed in the sweetness of the sense objects, so one attached to meditation upon me can become absorbed solely in my sweetness.”