Bhagavad Gita 3.2
व्यामिश्रेणेव वाक्येन बुद्धिं मोहयसीव मे । तदेकं वद निश्चित्य येन श्रेयोऽहमाप्नुयाम् ॥
vyāmiśreṇeva vākyena buddhiṃ mohayasīva me | tad ekaṃ vada niścitya yena śreyo 'ham āpnuyām ||
Translation
With apparently perplexing speech you confuse, as it were, my understanding. Tell me, therefore, with certainty, that one thing by which I may attain the highest good.
Reflection
Where have you been demanding one answer because two would mean you have to choose?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Three
Arjuna asks for one thing. Tad ekaṃ vada niścitya. Tell me, decided, the one. He wants the binary collapsed for him. The teacher used two words, action and knowledge, and the student is asking which one the answer lives in. The asking is honest. It is also a familiar move: when the teaching feels mixed, demand the simplification. Mohayasi iva, as if you are confusing me, with iva doing soft work, the polite as if. Krishna will refuse the simplification. The one thing turns out not to be one of two options Arjuna has named. It is a third thing the student has not yet thought of.