तेषां ज्ञानी नित्ययुक्त एकभक्तिर्विशिष्यते ।प्रियो हि ज्ञानिनोऽत्यर्थम् अहं स च मम प्रियः ॥
teṣāṃ jñānī nityayukta ekabhaktirviśiṣyatepriyo hi jñānino’tyartham ahaṃ sa ca mama priyaḥ
Of these the knower, who is ever in constant union with the Divine, whose bhakti is all concentrated on Him, is the best; he loves Me perfectly and is my beloved.
Gītā 7·17He is ever in constant union with him, nityayukta; his whole life and being are an eternal Yoga with the Transcendent than whom there is nothing higher, with the Universal besides whom there is none else and nothing else. On him is concentred all his bhakti, eka-bhaktiḥ not on any partial godhead, rule or cult. This single devotion is his whole law of living and he has gone beyond all creeds of religious belief, rules of conduct, personal aims of life. He has no griefs to be healed, for he is in possession of the All-blissful. He has no desires to hunger after, for he possesses the highest and the All and is close to the All-Power that brings all fulfilment. He has no doubts or baffled seekings left, for all knowledge streams upon him from the Light in which he lives. He loves perfectly the Divine and is his beloved; for as he takes joy in the Divine, so too the Divine takes joy in him. This is the God-lover who has the knowledge, jñānaḥ bhaktaḥ.
