But those people of meritorious deeds whose sin has gone to its end, is all but spent, is worn away, whose meritorious action, the cause of the purification of their being, exists, are the doers of merit. Of those doers of merit, those freed from the delusion of the pairs worship Me, the supreme Self, firm in their vow. Those whose discernment is settled, holding the vow of abandoning all, in the conviction that the supreme reality is just this and not otherwise, are called firm in their vow. For what purpose do they worship? It is told.

But those in whom the sin, set going from beginningless time, which is the cause of the pairs of opposites and of desire and aversion and is the obstructor of being turned toward Me, the quality-made sin, has, by an excellent heap of merit gathered over many births, come to its end, been worn away, they, by the gradation of good deeds described before, having taken refuge in Me, released from the quality-made delusion, of firm vow, of firm resolve, worship Me alone, for release from age and death, for the sight of the own-form of the self as set apart from matter, for great lordship, and for the attaining of Me. There the Lord sets forth the particular things to be known and to be taken up by those three who worship the Blessed One.

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

And there are some who are otherwise, Krishna says, with 'those whose sin has come to an end'.