Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 9, Verse 22

अनन्याश्चिन्तयन्तो मां ये जनाः पर्युपासते । तेषां नित्याभियुक्तानां योगक्षेमं वहाम्यहम्

ananyāścintayanto māṃ ye janāḥ paryupāsate | teṣāṃ nityābhiyuktānāṃ yogakṣemaṃ vahāmyaham

Translation

Those men who, meditating on Me as non-separate, worship Me all around — to them who are ever devout, I secure gain and safety.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

ananyāḥ

without-others

cintayantaḥ

thinking

mām

me

ye

who

janāḥ

men

paryupāsate

worship

teṣām

of them

nityābhiyuktānām

of the ever-balanced

yogakṣemam

security

vahāmi

bring

aham

I

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

Those men of renunciation (saṃnyāsins) who worship Me all around, ever meditating on Me, regarding themselves as non-separate — i.e., looking upon the Supreme God, Nārāyaṇa, as their own Self — to these who see the Reality, who are ever devout, I secure gain. I secure to them what is not already possessed; and I secure to them safety, i.e., preservation of what is already possessed. As said in vii.17-18, they form My very Self and are dear to Me. While other devotees work themselves also for their own gain and safety, those who see nothing as separate from themselves do not work for their own gain and safety. Indeed these latter never cherish a desire for life or death; the Lord alone is their refuge. Wherefore the Lord Himself secures to them gain and safety.