Verse 8.13

Verse 8.13: “Repeating ‘Om’, (which is) the Brahman (in the form) of the Mono-syllable, and meditating upon Me, whoso departs, shedding off the body: he attains the Highest Goal. (117)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

Then the life-wind should be steadied in the sky region (in the head) so that as the union is complete (with the sacred ‘Om’) the entire ‘Om’ is in tune with the original Supreme Brahman. Then even the meditation of the Sacred Om stops and the life-breath itself is brought to rest; there is then left the pure form of the essence of the Supreme Brahman. What is called Pranava (Sacred ‘Om’) is only the mono-syllabic form of My own self. And one who leaves his body while meditating on this sacred letter ‘Om’ (Supreme), definitely reaches My pure essence and when this is reached, there remains nothing beyond it to reach. Now, Oh Arjuna, if there be a doubt haunting your mind as to how they remember Me, without fail, at the time of death,-doubt as to who would prepare and occupy the seat, who would restrain the senses, what mind could meditate upon the sacred ‘Om’, at a moment when the organs are all out of joint, the happy and contented state of the life has yielded place to vivid signs of death eclipsing the body internally and externally—you dispel all doubt in your mind and be assured that at the ebbing of life of one who uninterruptedly dedicated his life to meditation on Me, I am his servant to do his bidding.