Without faith, devoid of faith in the true nature of this dharma, the knowledge of the Self, and in its fruit; unbelievers, doers of evil, who have taken to the secret doctrine of the demons, namely the vision of the mere body as the Self; sinful men who gratify only their own appetites, devoid of faith, O scorcher of foes: not reaching Me, the supreme Lord, they turn back. There is no question of their reaching Me, so the meaning is that they do not reach even the mere devotion which is the differentiated means on the path to Me. They assuredly remain on the road of death and transmigration, the road of attaining hell, the animal births and the rest. Having turned Arjuna toward Him by praise, He says.

Of this duty called worship, which, by having Me, who am supremely dear, for its object, is itself of supremely dear form, which is the means to the attaining of Me whose own form is the supreme highest good, and which is imperishable, men without faith, lacking the trustful eagerness, having gained the state fit for taking it up, not attaining Me, go round and round in the path of transmigration that has the form of death. This is a great wonder. This is the meaning. Hear, then, the unthinkable greatness of Me, the one to be attained.

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.