He who sees Me, Vāsudeva, the Self of all, everywhere, in all beings, and who sees the whole host of beings, from Brahmā downward, in Me who am the Self of all: for him, who sees the oneness of the Self in this way, I, the Lord, am never lost, I do not pass out of his sight; and he too is never lost to Me, to Vāsudeva, this knower does not become hidden from Me. For he and I are of one Self, and one's own Self is indeed dear to oneself; and because I Myself am the one who sees the oneness of the Self of all. Having thus restated the right vision that was the burden of the previous verse, its fruit, liberation, is now declared.

Then, having reached the state of ripening, come to a likeness with Me, what is spoken of in 'the stainless one reaches the supreme likeness'; seeing the likeness to Me of all the self-substance, which, its merit and demerit shaken off, abides in its own form; he who sees Me everywhere in the self-substance and sees all the self-substance in Me, since, by their mutual likeness, the seeing of either one is the seeing that the other too is of this kind; for him who sees his own self's own nature, I, by that likeness, am not lost, do not come to be unseen; and for Me too, seeing him, by his likeness to Me, he, beholding his own self as like Me, does not come to be unseen. Then the Lord states the state of ripening.

Krishna states the fruit, with 'he who sees Me everywhere'. 'I do not perish for him' means I am always the bearer of his gaining and keeping; that is the sense. And he does not perish for Me; he is always My devotee. For it is well known that 'even when a master is present, one is masterless if he does not protect, and even when a servant is present, he is no servant if he does not serve'. And it is said in the Garuda, 'he who sees Me always, the same in all beings, his devotion is unshaken, and I bear his gaining and keeping'.