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Bhagavad Gita 9.22: I Carry What You Lack

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To those who are ever devoted and worship with a steady mind, Krishna secures what they lack and preserves what they have. A verse of reassurance and trust.

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ananyāś cintayanto māṁ ye janāḥ paryupāsate

Bhagavad Gita 9.22 · Chapter 9, Raja-Vidya-Raja-Guhya Yoga

To those who think of Me with undivided heart, I carry what they lack and preserve what they have.

Spoken by Krishna to the warrior Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra — the Gita sits within the Mahabharata's Bhishma Parva — as Arjuna, overcome with grief and unwilling to fight his own kin, laid down his bow before the war.

What it means

To those who think of Me with undivided heart, I carry what they lack and preserve what they have.

Spoken by Krishna to the warrior Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra — the Gita sits within the Mahabharata's Bhishma Parva — as Arjuna, overcome with grief and unwilling to fight his own kin, laid down his bow before the war.

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To those who think of Me with undivided heart, I carry what they lack and preserve what they have. (Bhagavad Gita 9.22 · Chapter 9, Raja-Vidya-Raja-Guhya Yoga.) Godify shows this verse verbatim from a verified corpus with its exact source, never a paraphrase passed off as the original.

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