Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 10: The Divine Glories

Bhagavad Gita 10.17

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

How, O master of yoga, may I come to know you by meditating on you constantly? In which forms, Lord, should I think of you?

Modern context

Arjuna asks a deeply practical question. He wants to think of the divine constantly, but the divine is beyond thought. So where should his mind rest? In which forms should he look? This is the problem every seeker meets. It is hard to love what is formless. The answer, which fills the rest of the chapter, is to see the divine in the best of each kind of thing.