Krishna explains how devotees, empowered by faith, achieve worldly desires through other deities while reinforcing that He remains the ultimate source of all outcomes.

This verse stresses the temporary nature of rewards from worshiping other deities, guiding Arjuna to appreciate the lasting fulfillment of devotion to Krishna alone.

Krishna critiques the misunderstanding of His true, unmanifest nature, emphasizing the limitation of human perception in grasping divine reality fully.

Krishna’s omniscience is presented as encompassing past, present, and future, underscoring His transcendental position beyond time and space.

Krishna identifies desire and aversion as the roots of delusion, offering insight into the psychological factors that bind beings to the cycle of birth and death.

The role of virtuous actions in freeing one from delusion prepares Arjuna to see devotion as both a practice and a result of spiritual purification.