BG 18.55 bhaktya mam abhijanati... cited (Lec)

Expressions researched:
"One can understand Me as I am" |"bhaktya mam abhijanati" |"tato mam tattvato jnatva" |"visate tad-anantaram" |"when one is in full consciousness of Me by such devotion" |"yavan yas casmi tattvatah"

Notes from the compiler: Vedabase Query: "18.55" or "One can understand Me as I am" or "bhaktya mam abhijanati" or "tato mam tattvato jnatva" or "visate tad-anantaram" or "when one is in full consciousness of Me by such devotion" or "yavan yas casmi tattvatah"

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Lecture on BG 1.13-14 -- London, July 14, 1973:

Bhakti-yoga is transcendental. And because Kṛṣṇa is transcendental, you cannot understand Kṛṣṇa by any material method. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, bhaktyā mām abhijānāti (BG 18.55). The method also is transcendental, not of this material world. So if we can understand simply these facts, that Kṛṣṇa is transcendental, Kṛṣṇa's name is transcendental, Kṛṣṇa's form is transcendental, sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ. Īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ (Bs. 5.1). Kṛṣṇa's body is sac-cid-ānanda, not body like this. This body is asat, acit and nirānanda, just the opposite. This material body is asat. Asat means temporary. It will not exist. But Kṛṣṇa's body is not like that. Kṛṣṇa's body is eternal. That is cit. Sat-cit. Full of knowledge.