Those states, those things, which are of the nature of sattva, brought forth by sattva; those of rajas; and those of tamas, whatever states arise in living beings by force of their own past action: know all of them to arise from Me alone. Yet, though they arise from Me, I am not in them, not dependent on them, not subject to them, as those in transmigration are; they, rather, are in Me, subject to Me, dependent on Me. The Lord shows His compassion: that the world does not recognise Me, the supreme Lord, though I am of this nature, eternally pure, awake and free by My very being, the Self of all beings, free of the qualities, the cause that burns up the seed of the faults of transmigration. And what is the cause of the world's ignorance? It is told.

Why is it told with particular specification? The states of being that abide in the world, sattvic, rajasic, and tamasic, as things to be enjoyed, as bodies, as senses, and as the causes of this and that, all of them, know to have arisen from Me alone, and to abide, as My body, in Me alone. But I am not in them: I am never at all dependent on them for My standing. Elsewhere, even where the body depends for its standing on the self, there is, in the body's standing by the self, some use to the self; but for Me there is no such use from them; play alone is My purpose. This is the meaning.

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

Madhva's commentary treats verses 7.8 through 7.12 as a single passage; it is given in full at verse 7.8.