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 25
Verse 25
The Yoga of Royal Knowledge and Royal Secret
Those who worship the demigods will take birth among the demigods; those who worship the ancestors go to the ancestors; those who worship ghosts and spirits will take birth among such beings; and those who worship Me will live with Me.
Context & Meaning
A clean, symmetrical law: the devotee reaches the object of devotion. Worship of the limited leads to the limited; worship of the Unlimited leads to the Unlimited. It is not a judgment but a description of how spiritual trajectories work. The path taken and the destination reached are mirror images of each other.
Scholar Commentaries
1 commentary · Public domainMadhvacharya
DvaitaThis verse is simultaneously a cosmological description and a practical prescription. Since the goal determines the direction, and the direction determines the destination, the devotee who knows this will fix their devotion on the highest — on Krishna alone.