The divine endowment is for release, for release from the bondage of transmigration. The asuric endowment is held to be for bondage, for a fixed bondage; and so too the rākṣasa endowment. This being said, the Blessed Lord, marking an unspoken thought in Arjuna of the form 'am I joined with the asuric endowment, or with the divine?', says: do not grieve, do not feel sorrow. You are born to the divine endowment, born marked for it; you are of coming good fortune, O Pāṇḍava.

The divine endowment, which has the form of the following of My command, is for release, for release from bondage; it is, by stages, for the attaining of Me. This is the meaning. The demonic endowment, which has the form of the transgressing of My command, is for bondage; it is for the attaining of the downward course. This is the meaning. Having heard this, to Arjuna, exceedingly afraid because he had not determined his own nature, the Lord says: do not grieve; you are born to the divine endowment. O Pandava, the meaning is that you are the son of Pandu, the foremost of the righteous.

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

'Born to the divine endowment' (abhijata) means born toward it.