He who does work for Me, work done for My sake; he who has Me for the supreme: a servant does his master's work, but does not thereby take the master to be the supreme goal to be reached after death; this one, however, the doer of work for Me, takes Me alone as the supreme goal, so he is one whose supreme, whose highest goal, is Me. So too My devotee, he who worships Me alone, by every means, with his whole self, with his whole zeal. Free of attachment, free of attachment in the matter of wealth, sons, friends, wife and the circle of kin, attachment being fondness, affection. Free of enmity, with enmity gone, free of the disposition of an enemy toward all beings, even toward those given to working him utter harm. He who is such a devotee of Mine comes to Me; I alone am his supreme goal, and no other goal is his. This is the teaching dear to Me, taught by Me, O son of Pāṇḍu. Thus ends the eleventh chapter in the commentary on the Bhagavad Gītā composed by the most reverend Śaṅkara the Blessed, pupil of the most reverend Govinda the Blessed whose feet are worthy of worship, the venerable wandering ascetic of the supreme order.

He who does all actions, the study of the Veda and the rest, holding them to be of the form of the worship of Me, is My action-doer. 'Having Me for his supreme': he of whose every undertaking I myself am the supreme object is 'having Me for his supreme'. My devotee: he who, by an exceedingly great love for Me, gaining no holding-up of himself without My praising, lauding, meditating, worshipping, salutation, and the rest, ever does them, having Me for his single purpose, is My devotee. Free of attachment: by having Me alone as dear, unable to bear attachment to anything else. Free of enmity toward all beings: since his nature is to have the joy and pain of union with and parting from Me alone, since he dwells on his own pain as caused by his own wrongdoing, and since he dwells on all beings as dependent on the supreme Person, there being no ground of enmity toward beings, he is free of enmity toward them. He who is of such a kind, he comes to Me, attains Me abiding as I truly am; the whole trace of fault, ignorance and the rest, cast out, he becomes one whose single experience is of Me. This is the meaning.

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.