Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 4: Knowledge and the Renouncing of Action

Bhagavad Gita 4.11

ye yathā māṃ prapadyante tāṃstathaiva bhajāmyaham | mama vartmānuvartante manuṣyāḥ pārtha sarvaśaḥ ||

In whatever way people approach me, in that same way I receive them. People everywhere, Arjuna, follow my path.

Modern context

This is one of the most generous verses in the Gita. However people turn toward the divine, they are met in that same way. One who seeks help finds help, one who seeks knowledge finds knowledge, and one who seeks only the divine itself finds that. No sincere approach is turned away, and all the roads people take are said to be one road in the end. The verse also holds up a mirror: what we receive depends a great deal on what we came asking for.