Gītārtha Saṃgraha verse 1

svadharma jñānavairāgya sādhya bhaktyeka gocaraḥ |
nārāyaṇaḥ paraṃ brahma gītā-śāstre samāritaḥ ||

svadharma - own highest dutyjñāna - knowing; knowledge; higher knowledgevairāgya - dispassion, disinclination, detachment, non-attachment; indifference to worldly objects and to lifebhakti - devotionparama - highest, mostnārāyaṇa - supreme being in the qualified non-dualism conventionpara - higher, otherbrahman - that which expands; the absolute, the eternal; the class of men who are the repositories and communicators of sacred knowledge, the Brāhmanical caste as a bodygītā - songśāstra - precept, rules, manual, compendium, book or treatise
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Commentaries and Reflections

Commentary by TKV Desikachar:

“The message of the Bhagavad Gītā is:
The vision of the lord is certain through
singular devotion developed by honouring ones Dharma
in a spirit that leads to clarity and detachment.”