But if you are unable to do even this that has been said, having Me for the supreme in your works, then, having taken refuge in My yoga, the carrying-out of the actions done in Me having surrendered them, give up the fruit of all action; that is, having surrendered the fruit of all actions, do so afterward, with a restrained mind. Now He praises the giving-up of the fruit of all action.

But if, having resorted to the discipline that is joined to Me, you are unable to do even this, that is, having resorted to the discipline of devotion which, made by the dwelling on My qualities, has the form of having Me alone as dear, you are unable to do even this action for Me which is an auxiliary of the discipline of devotion, then, having resorted to the discipline of the imperishable, which has the form of the dwelling on the own nature of the self, breeds the higher devotion, and was told in the first six chapters, give up, as the means to it, the fruit of all actions. For the understanding that I am dear and that I alone am to be attained arises only for one whose whole sin is worn away, who has mastered the self and mastered the mind. So, when, by action performed with no eye to its fruit, in the form of the worship of Me, the knowledge of the self has been accomplished, and the whole concealment of ignorance and the rest has ceased, and the inmost self, whose single own form is being subordinate to Me, has been directly beheld, then the higher devotion to Me arises of itself. And so it will be said, from 'worshipping Him with his own action a man finds consummation', through 'released, free of the sense of mine, at peace, he is fit for becoming Brahman; become Brahman, serene of self, he does not grieve, he does not crave; equal toward all beings, he gains the supreme devotion to Me'.

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.