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 9, Verse 15
Verse 15
Hard VerseThe Yoga of Royal Knowledge and Royal Secret
Others, who engage in sacrifice by the cultivation of knowledge, worship the Supreme Lord as the one without a second, as diverse in many, and in the universal form.
Context & Meaning
The Divine is approached through multiple valid pathways: as the one undivided Absolute (Advaita), as the many-in-one cosmic form (Vishishtadvaita), and as the many distinct divine manifestations (Dvaita). Krishna honors all three approaches here. No single lens exhausts the truth of the Divine — the Supreme is spacious enough for every sincere mode of seeing.
Scholar Commentaries
1 commentary · Public domainAdi Shankaracharya
AdvaitaEkatvena — as the One — represents the highest path: the recognition that there is only Brahman, undivided. The other paths are valid stages in the ascent toward this non-dual realization.