Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 7: Knowledge and Realization

Bhagavad Gita 7.26

vedāhaṃ samatītāni vartamānāni cārjuna | bhaviṣyāṇi ca bhūtāni māṃ tu veda na kaścana ||

I know the beings of the past, the present, and those yet to come, Arjuna; but no one knows me.

Modern context

Krishna knows all beings, past, present and future, but no one knows him. The relationship is uneven. The knower of everything cannot be made into an object of knowledge in the ordinary way, because he is the one doing the knowing. It is like the eye that sees everything except itself. This does not mean the divine is unreachable. It means it is reached in a different way: not by studying it as an object, but by love and by recognizing it as the deepest subject in oneself.