Bhagavad Gita Chapter 8 - Akshara Brahma Yoga - Sloka 6

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1 Gita Sloka  every day - Chapter 8 - Akshara Brahma Yoga - Sloka 6

Yam yam vapi smaran bhavam tyajyati ante kalevaram I

Tam tam tam eva iti kaunteya sada tad bhava bhavitah II sloka 6

यं यं वापि स्मरन् भावं त्यज्यति अन्ते कलेवरं I ि 
तं तं एव इति कौन्तेय सदा तद भाव भावितः II  श्लोक 6

Whatever being a man thinks of at the last moment when he leaves his body, that alone does he attain, O Kaunteya, being ever absorbed in the thought thereof. 

 Dream is only a projection of the mind and it has no corresponding external reality. But dream is the indicator of the trend of the mind of an individual. it cannot be recast or pre-arranged according to one's will and pleasure. Just as the dreamer is, while in a dream, the creature of his own mental make up, so does the dying man assume at the time of his death, a mental make up based on the bent of his mind in the course of that life. The gross manifestation, at a suitable time and environment, of that mental structure is what is called the next birth. Man is therefore the architect of his own destiny.

What then is that man ought to do for his welfare both here and in the hereafter? The way is shown in the next sloka.