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Bhagavad Gita · 7.21 · Self-Knowledge and Enlightenment·21 of 30

यो यो यां यां तनुं भक्तः श्रद्धयार्चितुमिच्छति।तस्य तस्याचलां श्रद्धां तामेव विदधाम्यहम् ॥

yo yo yāṁ yāṁ tanuṁ bhaktaḥ śhraddhayārchitum

ichchhati tasya tasyāchalāṁ śhraddhāṁ tām eva vidadhāmyaham

Sanskrit recitation

What you worship shapes you · 7.20–7.30 · Teaching

Translation

Whatever form any devotee desires to worship with faith, I make that same faith of his firm and unflinching.

Meaning

Tanu or body is used here in the sense of a Devata (god).The Lord, the indweller of all beings, makes the faith of that devotee who worships the lesser divinities, which is born of the Samskaras of his previous birth, steady and unswerving. (Cf.IV.11IX.22and23)

After Swami Sivananda

What you worship shapes you· 7.20–7.30→

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

Word-by-word→
yaḥ yaḥ
whoever
yām yām
whichever
tanum
form
bhaktaḥ
devotee
śhraddhayā
with faith
architum
to worship
ichchhati
desires
tasya tasya
to him
achalām
steady
śhraddhām
faith
tām
in that
eva
certainly
vidadhāmi
bestow
aham
I

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