Imbued with this faith he invokes the Devata of his choice and gains the fulfilment of his desires. And, Lord Krishna adds that in all cases these desires are “BEING VERILY DISPENSED BY ME ALONE.” The Self is the source of all activities, gains, fulfilments and despairs. The sense of joy or sorrow, of success or failure, is but a mental thought-wave; but for the Conscious principle illumining it, we would not have any such experience.
Faithful activity in any given field of action, brings about complete success, but the very existence of the field, the capacity to act, the fervour of faith that supplies consistency to all efforts — all these are possible only in the medium of the Changeless, the Actionless, the Attributeless, Eternal Self. And Krishna, identifying Himself with this Spiritual Centre of the Universe, rightly declares here, that He alone is the one that supplies an ever-growing faith in all activities, and ultimately, when the laws of action are fulfilled to the last bit, both in their intensity and application, it is He alone who dispenses the exact result of each action.
When a well-adjusted radio is plugged onto the current, the Electric Current says that it alone is the ‘dispenser’ of the programme available at the Station for the listeners!
SINCE THE DELUDED ONES DESIRE THE FINITE SENSE OBJECTS, THEY DO NOT COME TO THE ALL-SATISFYING PEACE; AND HENCE, IT IS SAID: