A core teaching · reflective in mood · a little context helps
“Faith draws the result, but the deeper order grants it.”
Endowed with that faith, that person seeks that worship, and receives those desires, granted by Me alone.
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A person with strong faith turns to that chosen deity and gets the desired result, but even that fulfillment is ultimately arranged by Krishna.
Krishna speaks this verse, on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, in the chapter titled "Jnana Vijnana Yoga" (Knowledge and Wisdom).
Verse 22 sits in Chapter 7 of the Bhagavad Gita — Jnana Vijnana Yoga, "Knowledge and Wisdom". The chapter has 30 verses in total.
Your neighbour ties a thread at the local temple for her son's job, and the offer letter arrives. Krishna would say the faith was hers and the result came through him, whatever shrine she chose.
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The devotee gets what he asked from that deity, Krishna explains, yet he himself grants every one of those wishes.
What this verse means
A person with strong faith turns to that chosen deity and gets the desired result, but even that fulfillment is ultimately arranged by Krishna.
Context & commentary
Krishna has already said he strengthens their faith; now he adds that the resulting fulfillment also comes through his ordering, rather than from any independent power.
What it looks like today
Your neighbour ties a thread at the local temple for her son's job, and the offer letter arrives. Krishna would say the faith was hers and the result came through him, whatever shrine she chose.
“What feels like a personal gain is still being held within a larger order.”
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