Krishna speaks10.9

मच्चित्ता मद्गतप्राणा बोधयन्तः परस्परम्।कथयन्तश्च मां नित्यं तुष्यन्ति च रमन्ति च॥

mac-cittā mad-gata-prāṇā bodhayantaḥ parasparamkathayantaś ca māṃ nityaṃ tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca

Word by word
mat-cittāḥ — those with minds fixed on memat-gata-prāṇāḥ — those who have surrendered their lives to mebodhayantaḥ — enlightening (with divine knowledge of God)parasparam — one anotherkathayantaḥ — speakingca — andmām — about menityam — continouslytuṣyanti — satisfactionca — andramanti — (they) delightca — also

The verse says

With their minds on me and their lives given over to me, they wake each other up, and speak of me constantly — and they are content, and they take delight in it.

In plain words

The last two words are the surprising ones.

Tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca — they are content, and they delight.

This is not described as a duty anybody is keeping up. It is described as enjoyable, which is not how religious practice usually gets written about.

Where you've felt this · in friendship

Two friends of yours love the same kind of music. They talk about it for three hours and leave wanting to carry on. Neither is informing the other. They both already know the records. What they are doing is enjoying the fact that somebody else sees it, and there is no point at which they have had enough of that.

Going deeper

Enjoyment is named here as part of the practice rather than a reward for it, and that deserves more attention than it usually gets.

Most of what this book has recommended so far is demanding: steadiness, discipline, the letting go of results. This verse describes something else entirely — people who have found the thing delightful, who seek each other out to talk about it, and who are not making an effort.

The phrase about waking each other up matters too. It is mutual. Nobody in the description is the teacher.

That is worth holding on to if your picture of a serious spiritual life is a solitary and slightly grim one. What is described here is closer to company: people who like the same thing, saying so to each other, at length, without getting tired of it.