Bhagavad Gita 13.19

iti kṣetraṁ tathā jñānaṁ

jñeyaṁ coktaṁ samāsataḥ

mad-bhakta etad vijñāya

mad-bhāvāyopapadyate

Thus field and knowledge are made known,

Indeed, what is to be known is clearly shown;

My devotee who knows this way,

Attains my state and comes to stay.

My dear Lord, I am constantly creating inner realities to help me navigate the world that confronts me. My desires and fears determine what I notice, what I prioritize, and what I ignore—and over time, they construct an entire inner world that feels like reality itself to me.

O all-pervading Lord, when a particular love dominates my heart, the whole world shrinks to what aids that passion and what obstructs it. Trapped in such a small, self-created world, I lose the capacity to see anything beyond its boundaries. Worse still, when that constructed reality begins to break down, I may even feel that you—who are forever benevolent—are indifferent or even hostile, simply because you do not preserve the reality I desire.

O all-auspicious Lord, help me recognize that it is the cracks in my small, constructed world that then allow the light of a greater reality to enter. Help me shift my focus from what is being destroyed to what is calling out to be discovered. Rather than being crushed under the debris of the reality I have built through my attachments and conceptions, may I be lifted by your wisdom and grace into the freedom of a greater reality—indeed, the greatest reality—where you invite me to reside, united with you in an immortal bond of love.

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13.19 Thus the field of activities [the body], knowledge and the knowable have been summarily described by Me. Only My devotees can understand this thoroughly and thus attain to My nature.