Chapter 9 - Verse 22

Those men of renunciation (samnyasins) who worship Me all around,* ever meditating on Me, regarding themselves as non-separate,—i.e., looking upon the Supreme God, Nārāyaṇa, as their own Self,—to these who see the Reality, who are ever devout, † I secure gain. I secure to them what is not already possessed; and I secure to them safety, i.e., preservation of what is already possessed. As said in vii. 17 18, they form My very Self and are dear to Me.

i.e., Who see Me all around, as infinite.—(A.)

Constantly and earnestly engaged in dhyana.

(Objection):—To other devotees also the Lord secures gain and safety.

(Answer):—True, He undoubtedly secures (to them gain and safety); but there is this difference: while other devotees work themselves also for their own gain and safety, those who see nothing as separate from themselves do not work for their own gain and safety. Indeed these latter never cherish a desire for life or death; the Lord alone is their refuge. Wherefore the Lord Himself secures to them gain and safety.

Other devotees do but worship the Supreme in ignorance.

(Objection):—If other gods (Devatās) are Thyself only, their devotees also worship Thyself.

(Answer):—Just so, indeed: