Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 11, Verse 54

भक्त्या त्वनन्यया शक्य अहमेवंविधोऽर्जुन । ज्ञातुं द्रष्टुं च तत्त्वेन प्रवेष्टुं च परन्तप

bhaktyā tvananyayā śakya ahamevaṃvidho'rjuna | jñātuṃ draṣṭuṃ ca tattvena praveṣṭuṃ ca parantapa

Translation

But by undistracted devotion can I, of this Form, be known and seen in reality, and entered into, O harasser of thy foes.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

bhaktyā

by devotion

tu

indeed

ananyayā

(by) without another

śakyaḥ

(am) possible

aham

I

evaṃvidhaḥ

of this kind

arjuna

O Arjuna

jñātum

to know

draṣṭum

to see

ca

and

tattvena

by essence

ca

and

parantapa

O Parantapa

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

Undistracted devotion (Bhakti): that devotion which never seeks any other object except the Lord, and in virtue of which no object other than Vāsudeva is cognized by any of the senses. Of this Form: of the Universal Form. By this sort of devotion it is possible not only to know Me as declared in the śāstras, but also to intuitively realise Me as I am, and to enter into Me, i.e., to obtain liberation.