Striving with effort, striving the more, the yogin there, the knower, his sin thoroughly cleansed and made pure, perfected through many births, having gathered up, birth after birth, some little store of disposition here and a little there, and by that gathered store of many births' making perfected: then, having gained right vision, he goes to the supreme, the highest course. Since it is so, therefore.

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

The yogin, his guilt wholly purified by the heaps of merit gathered over many births, come to consummation, striving with effort, even though he wandered, goes nonetheless to the supreme goal. The Lord states the yogin's superiority over all, by his being settled in the surpassing human goal.

It is not in a single birth, Krishna says, with 'through effort'. The seeker, having come to know, makes the effort; and so, made perfect through many births, becoming a man of direct knowledge, he goes to the supreme goal. And it is said in the Naradiya, 'the seeker, joined with exceeding faith, given over to Vishnu, having known, meditated and then seen, through many births enters the God Narayana, and in no other way at all'.