The final chapter gathers everything. Arjuna asks for the difference between renunciation and relinquishment. Krishna's answer is precise: never abandon offering, giving, and austerity — they purify even the wise. But do them without clinging and without claiming their fruit. That is his settled judgment. The work that is yours must not be dropped; to quit it out of confusion is dark, to quit it because it is hard is restless, to do it because it must be done while releasing the reward is clear. No one who wears a body can drop all action. The one who drops the fruit has truly let go. Krishna then maps knowledge, action, the doer, understanding, resolve, and happiness each across the three strands. Clear knowledge sees one deathless being in all beings. Restless knowledge sees only separateness. Dark knowledge grips one small thing as if it were everything. He teaches that worship through one's own work, whatever it is, leads to perfection. Your own dharma done roughly beats another's done well. Then the teaching rises to its summit. Sheltered in Krishna, the devotee reaches the everlasting home by grace. Krishna's final instruction strips away every remaining complexity: give me your mind, your love, your worship. You will come to me. Then, in the verse that crowns the entire text, he says: let go of every rule you cling to, come to me alone, and I will carry you — do not grieve. The Gita ends not with Arjuna's philosophy but with his obedience: the delusion is destroyed, I remember myself, I will do your word. Sanjaya, the narrator, closes with a declaration: where Krishna stands and Arjuna holds the bow, there you find fortune, victory, greatness, and unfailing right. The teaching is over. What remains is whether you will do it.