He, joined with that faith ordained by Me, strives, exerts himself, in the worship, the propitiation, of that form of a deity. And from that worshipped form of a deity he gains the desires, the things wished for, ordained, fashioned by Me alone, the supreme Lord, the all-knowing, who know the apportioning of the fruits of action. Since those desired things were ordained by the Blessed Lord, he gains them without fail. If the word is parsed as 'hitān', then the beneficial character of the desires must be taken as figuratively spoken, for desires are not truly beneficial to anyone. Since the activity of these means is finite, and these desirers are without discernment, therefore.

Joined with that faith free of obstacle, he exerts himself, sets to work, toward the worship of that deity, Indra and the rest; and then, from the worship of the deity, Indra and the rest, who is a body of Mine, he gains those very desires he longs for, ordained by Me alone. Although, at the time of worship, he does not know that Indra and the rest are bodies of Mine and that for that reason their worship is the worship of Me, still, since his worship is in truth the worship of Me, it is I alone who ordain what the worshipper longs for.

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

Madhva's commentary treats verses 7.21 through 7.22 as a single passage; it is given in full at verse 7.21.