# Bhagavad Gita 8.12

**Canonical reference:** `gita.8.12`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

सर्वद्वाराणि संयम्य मनो हृदि निरुध्य च।
मूध्न्यार्धायात्मनः प्राणमास्थितो योगधारणाम् ॥

## IAST

sarvadvārāṇi saṃyamya mano hṛdi nirudhya ca
mūdhnyā^^rdhāyātmanaḥ prāṇamāsthito yogadhāraṇām

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

and confining the mind within the heart placing the life-breath in the head

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