Bhagavad Gita 15.18

yasmāt kṣaram atīto ’ham

akṣarād api cottamaḥ

ato ’smi loke vede ca

prathitaḥ puruṣottamaḥ

 

Beyond the ever-changing, I reside,

Above the unchanging, I preside;

Thus in the world and the Vedas am I celebrated

As the Supreme Person—unbending, undebated.

 

My dear Lord, inside me there is an innate curiosity that springs from the cit feature of my very soul. Indeed, to be conscious is to be curious, to want to make sense of things, to find meaning.

O Lord of all meaning, please bless me so that my search for meaning draws me to you. Help me to appreciate you as the ultimate organizing principle, the fundamental ground for all existence, the first and final cause of all causes. Without you, meaning remains something subjective and speculative, something that I plaster over existence. With you, meaning becomes something dormant and latent, something I awaken and activate–not something I imagine or impose.

O supremely benevolent Lord, guide me to see you as the source and shelter and subject of all love. Lead me to realize that in your love resides the transcendental substance of all meaning. Even if life’s ups and downs don’t always make immediate or independent sense, may they make eventual contextual sense when they prompt and push my consciousness to contemplate you, my head to choose you and my heart to cherish you.

O all-merciful Lord, bless me to experience succor, strength, satisfaction, and serenity in remembering you and your love. And may that experience fill my life with such meaning as to make whatever doesn’t make sense irrelevant and insignificant.

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15.18 Because I am transcendental, beyond both the fallible and the infallible, and because I am the greatest, I am celebrated both in the world and in the Vedas as that Supreme Person.