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

For my favour, for the sake of doing me a kindness, You spoke that supreme, unsurpassed, secret word named the adhyātma, whose matter is the discernment of self from not-self; and by that word of Yours this delusion of mine has departed, my undiscerning notion has gone. Further.

Arjuna spoke. For the sake of compassion toward me alone, deluded by the delusion that is the conceit of the body as the self, you have spoken the supreme secret, the supreme mystery called the adhyatma, the word that is to be told regarding the self, from 'never indeed was there a time when I was not' down to 'therefore become a yogin, Arjuna'; and by it this whole delusion of mine regarding the self has gone, has been cast far off.

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

Om. In this chapter the standing of His own form is told, in such a way that the meditation taught in scripture becomes possible.