With the large-heartedness of a master-mind, Lord Krishna declares here that all creatures living the life of intelligent seeking and industrious efforts are blessed, inasmuch as they all are, in their own way, approaching the same fountain ofthe Infinite for tapping out their required energies. Although some are invoking the Eternal Spiritual Strength for the purposes of reducing their distress, or for fulfilling their desires, they all are, for one reason or the other, approaching the Self, and therefore, relatively, diviner than the insentient ‘mineral world.’ However, comparing and contrasting them with the Jnanis, the Lord says: “BUT, THE MAN OF KNOWLEDGE, I REGARD AS MY OWN SELF.”
It is very well-known that there is a lot of difference between maintaining one’s friendship with the minister, and oneself becoming a minister. No doubt, to be a friend of a minister is to gain some amount of influence and power in society; but the entire might and glory come to the man when he himself becomes the minister. Similarly, to be capable of invoking and directing the Spiritual Strength is certainly divine; but a man of Knowledge is one who, courting Truth in a spirit of total identification with It, successfully attains the total transcendence of his individual mind-and-intellect, whereby his ego rediscovers itself to be nothing other than the Self. He becomes one with It.
Such a Jnani, thereafter, ever remains in the divine sense of identification with the self. This emphasis of extra preference to the status of a Man-of-Wisdom, is according to Krishna, his personal opinion (Matam).
