Free of expectation, free of craving with regard to the things one might look to, the body, the senses, the objects and their connections; pure, possessed of cleanliness both outer and inner; skilful, able to grasp rightly and at once the tasks that come up; indifferent, the ascetic who takes the side of no one, of no friend and the rest; free of distress, free of fear; one who gives up all undertakings, undertakings being the actions, prompted by desire, that have the enjoyment of fruit here and hereafter for their aim, and one whose habit it is to give them all up: whoever is such a devotee of Mine is dear to Me. Further.

Expecting nothing, expecting nothing of the whole of things other than the self; pure, with a body nourished by the substances sanctioned by scripture; skilled, able in the taking up of the scriptural acts and indifferent elsewhere; free of distress, free of distress amid the pains of the unavoidable contact of cold, heat, harsh touches, and the rest in the carrying out of the scriptural acts; giving up every undertaking, giving up the undertaking of all actions other than the scriptural; he who, of such a kind, is My devotee, he is dear to Me.

In 'one who gives up every undertaking' and the rest, there is no repetition, since it stands in the relation of the general and the particular, of what explains and what is explained. When it has been said 'freed from joy and the rest', since such freedom might be only occasional, it is said 'who does not rejoice' (12.17). The earlier statement is to rule out a figurative reading, and the practice of devotion is to make known its eminence. This is the spreading-out of 'but those who cast all actions on Me' (12.6) and the rest.