“Those who hold me in single-minded thought, I carry and I keep.”

In the story this is Krishna's tenderest promise: those who hold him steadily in thought are carried, and what they have is kept. Of all the Gita's verses, devotional readers hold this one closest.

For a secular reader it still says something observable: what you attend to steadily starts to hold you up in return. Attention, kept long enough, becomes support.