Text 171
The Onulence of the Absolute
تاریخ
PURPORTE
In this verse it appears that Arjuna is already satisfied with his understanding of the Supreme Lord Krṣṇa. By Krṣṇa’s grace, Arjuna has personal experience, intelligence and knowledge and whatever else a person may have through all these agencies, and he has understood Krṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. For him there is no doubt, yet he is asking Krṣṇa to explain His all-pervading nature so that in the future people will understand, especially the impersonalists, how He exists in His all-pervading aspect through His different energies. One should know that this is being asked by Arjuna on behalf of the common people.
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कथं विद्यामहं योगिंस्त्वां सदा परिचिन्तयन् । केषु केषु च भावेषु चिन्त्योऽसि भगवन्मया ॥१७॥
kathaṁ vidyām ahaṁ yogiṁs tvāṁ sadā paricintayan keṣu keṣu ca bhāveṣu cintyo’si bhagavan mayā
katham —how;  vidyām aham —shall I know;  yogin —O supreme mystic;  tvām —You;  sadā —always;  paricintayan —thinking;  keṣu —in which;  keṣu —in which;  ca —also;  bhāveṣu —nature;  cintyaḥ asi —You are remembered;  bhagavan —O Supreme;  mayā —by me.
TRANSLATION
How should I meditate on You? In what various forms are You to be contemplated, O Blessed Lord?
PURPORT
As it is stated in the previous chapter, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is covered by His  yoga-māyā . Only surrendered souls and devotees can see Him. Now Arjuna is convinced that His friend, Kṛṣṇa, is the Supreme Godhead, but he wants to know the general process by which the all-pervading Lord can be understood by the common man. No common man, including the demons and atheists, can know Kṛṣṇa because He