For I, as the very self of the deity, am the enjoyer and also the lord of all sacrifices, of those of the Veda and of those of the remembered texts. The sacrifice has Me for its master; for it has been said 'I Myself am the adhiyajña here' (Gītā 8.4). But they do not recognise Me in truth, as I am; and so, having worshipped not in the prescribed way, they fall away, they slip down, from the fruit of the sacrifice. For those too who, being devoted to other deities, worship not in the prescribed way, the fruit of the sacrifice is bound to come. How?

It is I myself that, here and there, am the lord, and the giver of the fruit. This is the meaning. A great wonder is this, that men engaged in one and the same rite, by a mere difference of resolve, some become partakers of an utterly slight fruit and of a perishing nature, while some become partakers of the fruit that is the attaining of the supreme Person of unsurpassed and limitless bliss, and of no-return. The Lord says this.

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

Krishna states the reason for worship being preceded by right rule, with 'for I'.