Krishna says, "Hear again My supreme instruction, the most confidential of all. I am revealing this for your benefit because you are very dear to Me (18.64). Always think of Me, be devoted to Me, worship Me, and offer obeisance to Me. Doing so, you shall come to Me. This is My promise to you, for you are very dear to Me" (18.65).

These verses are not stand-alone verses. Instead, they are the culmination of what was being told earlier when Krishna said, "Remember Me all times (𝙨𝙖𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙨𝙝𝙪-𝙠𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙝𝙪-𝙖𝙣𝙪𝙨𝙢𝙧𝙖) and fight. With mind and intellect absorbed in Me you shall without doubt come unto Me” (8.7). The riddle of 'remembering Him all times' is solved when Krishna said, "United with the self, one sees the self in all beings and all the beings in the self, he sees the same everywhere (6.29). He who perceives Me everywhere and sees all in Me, I am never lost, nor is he ever lost to Me" (6.30). 

Krishna further says, "Abandon all 𝙙𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙨 and take refuge in Me alone. I will liberate you from all sins, grieve not" (18.66). This is one of the most quoted verses of the Bhagavad Gita and in a sense, this is the end of the Bhagavad Gita.

Krishna earlier explained about 𝙨𝙬𝙖-𝙙𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙖 (own nature) and 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙖-𝙙𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙖 (others' nature). He encourages harmony and synergy with one’s 𝙨𝙬𝙖-𝙙𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙖 (2.31-2.37). Subsequently, he gave the hierarchy when He said that s𝙨𝙬𝙖-𝙙𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙖 is better than 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙖-𝙙𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙖 (3.35) even when 𝙨𝙬𝙖-𝙙𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙖 is faulty.

Now Krishna says to shun all 𝙙𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙨 and take refuge in Him. It is like rivers losing their individuality or 𝙨𝙬𝙖-𝙙𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙖 when they become one with the ocean. It is like both the rose and lotus flowers realising that the same creativity is making them blossom.

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