Lord Krishna
Divine TeacherThe Supreme Lord, the charioteer and divine guide of Arjuna. Krishna delivers the eternal wisdom of the Gita, revealing the nature of the soul, duty, and the path to liberation.
Speaking: Chapter 12, Verse 4
Verse 4
The Yoga of Devotion
Controlling all the senses, even-minded everywhere, engaged in the welfare of all beings—they too attain Me.
Context & Meaning
Those who follow the path of the unmanifest also attain the Divine — but notice the qualifications: complete sense control, equanimity everywhere, and active dedication to the welfare of all beings. These are extremely demanding conditions. Krishna does not deny the validity of this path; He affirms that it leads to Himself. But the very qualifications He lists reveal that this path demands a completeness of discipline that is rare.
Scholar Commentaries
1 commentary · Public domainRamanujacharya
VishishtadvaitaEven the path of the impersonal reaches the personal Lord — because the personal is the ground of the impersonal. All paths, when pursued to their ultimate conclusion, arrive at the same destination. But the paths differ in their ease and accessibility for embodied human beings.