Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 14, Verse 26

मां च योऽव्यभिचारेण भक्तियोगेन सेवते । स गुणान्समतीत्यैतान्ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते

māṃ ca yo'vyabhicāreṇa bhaktiyogena sevate | sa guṇānsamatītyaitānbrahmabhūyāya kalpate

Translation

And he who serves Me with unfailing Devotion of Love, he, crossing beyond those three guṇas, is fitted for becoming Brahman.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

mām

me

ca

and

yaḥ

who

avyabhicāreṇa

without-straying

bhaktiyogena

of devotion, by the yoga

sevate

serves

saḥ

he

guṇān

the qualities

samatītya

having crossed over

etān

these

brahmabhūyāya

of Brahman, for the becoming

kalpate

is fit

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

A saṃnyāsin (yati), or even a man of works (karmin), who serves Me — the Īśvara, Nārāyaṇa — dwelling in the heart of all beings, with a never-failing Bhakti-Yoga, in devotion to discriminative knowledge — this Bhakti-Yoga being indeed the result of the Grace and Mercy of the Lord — he crosses beyond the three guṇas mentioned above and is fit for becoming Brahman, i.e., for mokṣa.