The seeker, equipped with that kind of faith as described in the previous verse, invokes the Devata of his choice and gains his desires. These desires are all nourished by Him alone. The Self is the source of all activities. The sense of joy or sorrow out of these activities is a mental-wave. We will not be aware of this experience of joy or sorrow but for the principle of consciousness.

Faithful activity in any field of action brings about success. But the capacity to act, the existence of the field of action, the consistency and zeal with which action is performed, are all due to the Self alone. Sri Krishna identifies Himself with this Spiritual Centre – The Self- and declares that He alone is the One who confers faith in all activities and when the actions are over He alone provides the results thereof.

The Supreme and Omniscient Lord alone knows the precise relationship between an action and its rewards. He is the dispenser of the fruit of action.

All forms are forms of the One Supreme; their worship is the worship of the Supreme; the giver of all rewards is the Supreme – Sridhara Swami.

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Yuktah,being endued; taya, with that; sraddhaya, faith, as granted by Me; sah, that person; ihate, engages in; radhanam, i. e. aradhanam, worshipping; tasyah, that form of the deity. And labhate, he gets; tan hi, those very; kaman, desired results; tatah, there-from, from that form of the deity which was worshipped; as vihitan, they are dispensed, meted out; maya eva, by Me alone, who am the omniscient, supreme God, because I am possessed of the knowledge of the apportionment of the results of actions. The meaning his that he surely gets those desired results since they are ordained by God. If the reading be hitan (instead of hi tan), then the beneficence (-hita means beneficent-) of the desired result should be interpreted in a figurative sense, for desires cannot be beneficial to anyone!