अन्तवत्तु फलं तेषां तद्भवत्यल्पमेधसाम् ।
देवान्देवयजो यान्ति मद्भक्ता यान्ति मामपि ।। ७.२३ ।।

antavat-tu phalaṁ teṣāṁ tad-bhavaty-alpa-medhasām |
devān-deva-yajo yānti mad-bhaktā yānti mām-api || 7.23 ||

The question may then be asked: Is what the common worshippers do proper? Or does it call for refinement and sublimation?

This is where Krishna and Bhagavad Gita excel. Krishna pictures their common plights and their fates; but in the same strain he also gives his critical judgement together with the apt advice:

The results these short-sighted, indiscriminate people attain, are, alas, short-living, fleeting. Those that worship the lower deities go to them. But those that worship the Supreme attain the Supreme. For the short-sighted the end is trifling; for the other, it is permanent and Supreme.

What does Krishna emphasize by this? He shows how with the same effort and time the human has the chance of attaining the Supreme result. But many, despite the gifts of intelligence and discriminating power, woefully fall a pitiable victim to the lowly narrow path.

Krishna’s intention is to treat Arjuna’s confused mind and give it the clarity and vision for leading his life to its destined glory and fullness. The Bhagavad Gita dialogue is instructional, enlightenmental in nature. It exposes man to the Truth. All the rest depends upon the hearer and reader.

Nature does not restrict and bind man with any overpowering note. Unchangeable characteristics and habits are there only in the non-humans. Humans are supposed to be discreet in making their timely selections and following them assiduously to gain the resultant growth and refinement. The prerogative to use or not to use this sovereign right rests with the individual himself.

Krishna had stressed this point earlier too. Showing attraction (raga) and repulsion (dvesha) to be the stark enemies in the path of evolution (3.34) and exhorting every one to win over these with the majesty and power of the Soul (3.43), he had made the purpose of spirituality quite clear.

Any time in any religio-devotional effort, one should not pin the cause and its outcome on a source other than his own mind. In the mind alone lie all possibilities, probabilities, scope and effort to realize the ultimate source. This is the summary position Krishna conveys.