HOW AM I TO MEDITATE UPON THEE, SO THAT I MAY COME TO KNOW THEE? — The goal of a seeker is to KNOW the Truth in his own personal experience, while he is in an intimate identification with It. The Geeta was advocating, so far, not a life of retirement, for purposes of quiet meditation, in solitary caves, on the banks of some river, all alone! Krishna’s call to man was a call to duty, the call of work, the call of living the God-experience in and through life. Geeta, the scripture, we should not forget, was declared in the Mahabharata battle-field at a moment when the world of that time was facing the greatest known historical crisis, both secular and sacred.
Arjuna has been completely converted into accepting the Geeta Religion of Right Action. This is indicated especially when Arjuna addresses Krishna in this stanza as “O Yogin” — the greatest Karma Yogin that ever freely lived in the thickest of life, yet, never let himself down from the Consciousness of the Divine Essence.
Moreover, he makes it very clear why he has requested Krishna to explain “without reserve,” His Cosmic-Stature. Arjuna asks: “IN WHAT FORMS ARE YOU TO BE THOUGHT OF BY ME?” Even while living life and meeting its problems, if one were to remember constantly the Divine Presence everywhere, one must know exactly where to see It, among the individual objects of the world, among the combinations of things and in the community of beings.
STATING AGAIN PRECISELY WHAT HE WANTS KRISHNA TO EXPLAIN, ARJUNA MAKES IT CLEAR THAT EVEN IF THE ANSWERS BE RATHER LENGTHY, HE WILL NOT FEEL TIRED OF LISTENING TO THEM AND UNDERSTANDING THEM ALL:
