योगक्षेम

Yogakshema joins two words. Yoga here means getting what one does not yet have, and kshema means keeping what one already has. Every person carries these two loads: how will what I need come, and will what I have be taken from me?

In the ninth chapter the Lord says that those who think of him with undivided devotion and worship him on every side, ever joined to him, have their yogakshema carried by him (Gita 9.22). To "carry" is to take the load on himself. In the second chapter the seeker was told to be free from the worry of yogakshema (Gita 2.45); the promise of the ninth chapter tells us who takes the load up.

Common misreading: that the Lord grants every wish of a devotee.

Better sense: the verse speaks of what is lacking and what is had, not of a list of wishes. And what is in the devotee's hands, his action and his striving, stays with him (Gita 9.14). The Lord carries what effort cannot make certain.

The whole topic is in The Steadfast Devotee and Divine Care.