Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 7: Knowledge and Realization

Bhagavad Gita 7.1

mayyāsaktamanāḥ pārtha yogaṃ yuñjanmadāśrayaḥ | asaṃśayaṃ samagraṃ māṃ yathā jñāsyasi tacchṛṇu ||

Hear, Arjuna, how, with your mind attached to me, practising yoga and taking refuge in me, you will come to know me fully and without doubt.

Modern context

A new section of the Gita begins here. The first six chapters taught how to act and how to steady the mind. The next six turn to what is worth knowing and loving. The word that stands out is 'attached'. The whole teaching so far has warned against attachment, and now Krishna asks Arjuna to attach his mind to him. Attachment itself is not the problem. The trouble is attaching to things that pass. Turned toward what does not pass, the same capacity becomes devotion.