But the great souls, those of no mean mind, having resorted to the divine Nature, the Nature of the gods, marked by calm, self-restraint, compassion, faith and the like, worship Me, the Lord, O Pārtha, serve Me with minds turned to no other, having known Me to be the source of beings, the source, the cause, of the creatures and of ether and the rest, the imperishable. How?

But those great souls who, by the heaps of merit they have themselves made, having come to Me for refuge, their every bond of sin shattered, have resorted to the divine nature; they, knowing Me, the origin of beings, the imperishable, whose name, deeds, and own form lie beyond speech and mind, descended into manhood, out of supreme compassion, for the protection of the good, with minds that go to nothing else, worship Me; gaining, by an excess of love for Me, no holding-up of mind, of self, and of the outer organs without the worship of Me, having the worship of Me for their single purpose, they worship.

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

To show that the others do not hate Him, Krishna speaks of the gods, with 'the great-souled ones'.