Classical Vedanta · part of the Mahabharata
Bhagavad Gita 9.22
What you lack is carried; what you have is preserved
अनन्याश्चिन्तयन्तो मां ये जनाः पर्युपासते। तेषां नित्याभियुक्तानां योगक्षेमं वहाम्यहम्॥
To those who worship Me alone, thinking of no other, to those ever-united, I carry what they lack and preserve what they have.
What this verse points to
The Sanskrit term is yoga-kshema — acquisition and protection, the two anxieties that occupy most of a working life. The verse addresses them together because they are the same worry wearing two faces.
It is offered to those who are "ever-united," not to the occasional visitor. The condition is constancy of attention rather than intensity of feeling.
Sit with it
Name the thing you are trying to get and the thing you are trying to keep. Sit without doing anything about either.
About the Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita is a 700-verse dialogue set on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, in which Krishna counsels the warrior Arjuna at the moment he refuses to fight. Across eighteen chapters it draws together the paths of action, devotion, and knowledge into a single teaching on how to act without being bound by action. It sits inside the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata and has been the most widely commented-upon text in the Vedantic tradition, from Shankara onward.
References to this text are given as chapter.verse — here, 9.22.