With words that seem contradictory you confuse my intelligence. Tell me, therefore, with certainty, which is the only path by which I may attain the highest good.

Arjuna requests clarity before what he perceives as ambiguity. The key word is vyāmiśreṇa — “mixed” or “confused” — but this perception is the student’s projection, not the teacher’s confusion.

Śreyas (the highest good, the beneficial) is distinguished from preyas (the pleasant, the superficially attractive). Arjuna seeks a single path (eka), but Krishna will teach that the path is one though the entry points are multiple. Moha — confusion — arises from the apparent duality between knowledge and action, not from the message itself.