Out of compassion, from a wish to do them good, thinking how indeed good might come to them, I destroy the darkness born of ignorance, born of want of discernment, marked as false notion, the dark of delusion. Abiding in the disposition of the self, the lodging-place of the inner instrument, I destroy it with the lamp of knowledge. That lamp has the form of the discerning notion, anointed with the oil of the grace of devotion and affection, fanned by the wind of the firm settling on the thought of Me, with a wick made of the disposition fashioned by the means such as chastity, set in the holder of an inner instrument turned away from objects, standing in the windless inner chamber of a mind drawn back from objects and unsoiled by passion and aversion, shining with the right vision born of the constant, one-pointed meditation. Having heard of the glory and the yoga of the Blessed Lord, Arjuna said.

For the sake of compassion toward them alone, abiding in their state of being, present as the object in the working of their minds, and making manifest My host of auspicious qualities, with the shining lamp called the knowledge of Me I destroy the darkness, practised before, that is of the form of being bent toward objects other than Me, born of the ignorance that is the earlier karma contrary to knowledge. Thus, having heard the joining with the host of auspicious qualities, of a kind unlike all else and shared by no other than the Blessed One and breeding unsurpassed bliss in those who hear it, and the spread of His lordship, Arjuna, wishing to hear the unfolding of it, spoke.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Madhvacharya does not comment on this verse.