And whoever will study, will recite, this lawful dialogue-treatise of the two of us, that is, of Krishna and Arjuna, not departing from law, by him this will have been done, namely the worship of Me by the sacrifice of knowledge. Among sacrifices, the muttered, the whispered, and the mental, the sacrifice of knowledge, being mental, is the most distinguished; so by that sacrifice of knowledge the study of the scripture of the Gita is praised. Or it is an injunction of fruit, that this study has a fruit equal to the fruit of the sacrifice of knowledge that has a deity for its object: by that study I shall have been worshipped, honoured; such is My judgment, My settled conviction. Now this is the fruit for the listener.

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

He who will study this lawful dialogue of the two of us, by him, by the sacrifice of knowledge, I shall have been worshipped; such is My judgment. By the sacrifice of knowledge that is spoken of in this dialogue, that is, by the mere study of it, I shall have been worshipped. 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.