Chapter 9 - Verse 30

अपि चेत्सुदुराचारो भजते मामनन्यभाक् ।
साधुरेव स मन्तव्यः सम्यग्व्यवसितो हि सः ॥ ३० ॥

api cetsudurācāro bhajate māmananyabhāk .
sādhureva sa mantavyaḥ samyagvyavasito hi saḥ .. 30 ..


If one of even very evil life worships Me, resorting to none else, he must indeed be deemed righteous, for he is rightly resolved.
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He is rightly resolved : he is a man of good resolution.

By abandoning evil ways in his external life, and by the power of his internal right resolution,