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Bhagavad Gita 10.17

कथं विद्यामहं योगिंस्त्वां सदा परिचिन्तयन्।केषु केषु च भावेषु चिन्त्योऽसि भगवन्मया॥

kathaṃ vidyāmahaṃ yogiṃstvāṃ sadā paricintayan |keṣu keṣu ca bhāveṣu cintyo'si bhagavanmayā ||

How shall I, ever meditating, know you, O Yogin? In what aspects or things, O blessed Lord, should I think of you?

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

O Master! How can I, through constant meditation, come to know You? My Lord! What are Your various manifestations through which I can meditate on You?

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 10.17 · Vidya