But the action that is done by one who craves desires, that is, who craves the fruit of action, and done with egotism, this 'egotism' being meant not with reference to knowledge of truth but with reference to the worldly absence of egotism credited to a learned brahmin; for a man who is truly without egotism, a knower of the self, has no craving for desires nor any agency of great toil; even of a sattvic action a knower of the self is not the doer, much less of rajasic or tamasic action; and in the world even one who does not know the self, a learned man, is called free of egotism, as 'this brahmin is free of egotism'; so it is with reference to that worldly sense that 'with egotism' is said; the word 'again' fills out the verse; action done with much toil, accomplished by the doer with great effort, that action is declared to be of rajas.

But the action that is again done by one who craves desires, who seeks the fruit, or with egotism, the word 'or' being in the sense of 'and', and by one joined with the conceit of agency; the action that is done with much toil; that is rajasic; the action that is done by one joined with the conceit of the form 'this action of much toil is done by me alone' is rajasic. 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.