Bhagavad Gita 18.55
भक्त्या मामभिजानाति यावान्यश्चास्मि तत्त्वतः । ततो मां तत्त्वतो ज्ञात्वा विशते तदनन्तरम् ॥
bhaktyā mām abhijānāti yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ / tato māṃ tattvato jñātvā viśate tad-anantaram
Translation
By devotion he knows me, how great I am and who I am in truth. Then, knowing me in truth, he enters into me immediately after.
Reflection
What knowing has come to you through love that your intellect alone could not produce?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Eighteen
Devotion as the cognitive instrument. Bhaktya mam abhijanati. By devotion, not by intellect alone, the seeker comes to know yavan, the measure of Krishna's greatness, and yash cha asmi, what he actually is, tattvataha, truthfully. Then knowing arrives, and right after that knowing, the visate, the entering, the merging that has been called by many names. The sequence is precise. Devotion produces knowledge; knowledge produces entry. This is the answer to anyone who reads the contemplative path as cold and the devotional path as soft. The Gita weaves them as one rope. The final verse of insight comes through bhakti; the final state of being arrives through that insight.