The gods, nourished by sacrifices, gladdened by them, will give you the desired enjoyments, women, cattle, sons and the rest. He who enjoys the enjoyments given by those gods without having given to them in return, without having repaid his debt to these gods, who gratifies only his own body and senses, is a thief, one who steals what belongs to the gods and the rest. But those who.

The deities, fostered by sacrifice, worshipped by sacrifice and having Me for their self, will give you wished-for enjoyments. To those who would accomplish liberation, the highest human goal, the deities, fostered by each preceding sacrifice, will give the enjoyments wished for; they will give you all the enjoyments needed for each succeeding worship. But one who, without giving back to the deities the enjoyments they have given for the sake of their own worship, enjoys them himself, is simply a thief. For theft is just this: making the notion of ownership toward a thing that belongs to another and was set apart for that other's purpose, and with it nourishing one's own self. So for such a man there is not merely unfitness for the highest human goal, but a going to hell. This is the import. The Lord unfolds this.

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.