“Let everything go, and come to me alone for refuge.”

The Gita's final teaching is its most sweeping: put down every scaffold, every rule clung to for safety, and rest in what the whole poem has been pointing at. In the story, that refuge is Krishna himself.

Traditions have read this line a hundred ways for a thousand years, and it is set down here as it is carried. Whatever else it means, it describes the exhale at the end of a long argument: the moment the grip finally opens.