O Pārtha, neither here, in this world, nor there, in the world beyond, is there ruin for him. Ruin would mean the gaining of a birth lower than the former one, and that is not for one who has slipped from yoga. For no one who does good, who does what is auspicious, goes to a wretched, a contemptible course, O dear one. A father is called 'tāta' because he extends himself in the form of a son; and since the father is, as it were, the son, the son too is called 'tāta', and a pupil too is called a son. Because he does not go there. But what does become of him?

The Blessed Lord spoke. For one who has set out with faith on the discipline and has fallen from it, there is no destruction here or hereafter. There is no destruction called sin, in the form of the non-gaining of what is wished, in the experience of the enjoyments of heaven and the rest that belong to matter and in the experience of Brahman, nor in the form of the gaining of the unwished. This is the meaning. For no one who has done the discipline, which has the form of the supremely auspicious, comes to an ill course in any of the three times. How will it be with this man? To this the Lord speaks.

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.