मय्यासक्तमनाः पार्थ योगं युञ्जन्मदाश्रयः।असंशयं समग्रं मां यथा ज्ञास्यसि तच्छृणु॥
mayyāsakta-manāḥ pārtha yogaṃ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥasanśayaṃ samagraṃ māṃ yathā jñāsyasi tac chṛṇu
Word by word
The verse says
Krishna said: With your mind held to me, Arjuna, practising yoga and taking refuge in me — hear how you will come to know me completely, with nothing left in doubt.
In plain words
Before he says one word about himself, Krishna sets a condition.
Not think carefully. Not concentrate. Mad-āśrayaḥ — leaning on me — while you listen.
He is saying that this particular knowledge does not arrive in a mind that is standing back and weighing it up.
Where you've felt this · in sport
A cousin is teaching you to float in a swimming pool. From the edge she explains it — relax your shoulders, stop fighting the water, let your hips come up — and none of it helps. Then she puts one hand under your back and says the same words again. This time your body understands them. The words did not change. What changed is that you were in the water, and held, while you heard them.
Going deeper
Two kinds of knowing are about to be pulled apart, and the whole chapter runs on the difference.
Jñāna is knowledge — what you can be told, and can repeat. Vijñāna is that same thing after it has gone all the way in, so that it shows up in what you do when nobody is watching.
Everyone has met the gap. You can explain patience to a friend with real clarity and still be the one who snaps in a queue an hour later.
What is unusual is the condition Krishna attaches. He does not ask for a sharper mind. He asks Arjuna to listen while already resting on him — to learn the way you learn to float, held, rather than the way you learn a fact.
So if something you already agree with has never once changed how you behave, this is not calling you slow. It is saying you have one half of it, and the missing half is not more information.