Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization: Verse 23
अन्तवत्तु फलं तेषां तद्भवत्यल्पमेधसाम् ।
देवान्देवयजो यान्ति मद्भक्ता यान्ति मामपि ॥
antavat-tu phalaṃ teṣāṃ
tad-bhavaty-alpa-medhasām
devān-deva-yajo yānti
mad-bhaktā yānti mām-api – 7.23
The results these short-sighted, indiscriminate people attain are short-lived, fleeting. Those worshipping devas go to them, and those worshipping Me, the Supreme, come to Me.
Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization - Verse 23
Ma Gurupriya
Though every worshipper attains the fruition he aims at, the lower type of worship marks a drastic contrast. It is wrought by the desires and constrictions the worshippers’ mind fosters with regard to whom they worship and what means they adopt for the purpose.
In the whole process, it is not the deities that matter, but the worshipper’s attitude and dedication. Worshippers of other deities reach them, and “My devotees”, says Krishna “come to Me”, the outcome attributable solely to the devotee.
All other abodes are fleeting, short-living. Whereas what Krishna bestows is wholesome and lasting. Thus, though the effort is the same, the outcome it brings makes a difference. Lack of viveka, discrimination, alone is the cause of lack of spiritual progress.
