In the Vedas well studied, in sacrifices duly performed with all their parts, in austerities well practised, and in gifts rightly given, whatever fruit of merit is laid down by the scripture for these, all that array of fruit the yogin goes past, transcends. Knowing this, having well grasped the matter declared through the settling of the seven questions, and having put it into practice, the yogin reaches and attains the supreme, the highest, the sovereign station, the primal one, that which is at the beginning, the cause, that is, Brahman. Thus ends the eighth chapter in the commentary on the Bhagavad Gītā composed by the most reverend Śaṅkara the Blessed, pupil of the most reverend Govinda the Blessed whose feet are worthy of worship, the venerable wandering ascetic of the supreme order.

Whatever fruit is indicated in all the meritorious acts, the practice of the Veda in the forms of Rig, Yajus, Saman, and Atharvan, and sacrifice, austerity, giving, and the rest, knowing this glory of the Blessed One told in the two chapters, he passes beyond all of that; by the excess of the happiness of this knowing, he counts all of that as a blade of grass. Having become a yogin and a man of knowledge, he attains the supreme, primal place, which is what the man of knowledge is to attain.

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.