Sanskrit
अध्येष्यते च य इमं धर्म्यं संवादमावयोः । ज्ञानयज्ञेन तेनाहमिष्टः स्यामिति मे मतिः ॥ ७० ॥
adhyeṣyate ca ya imaṃ dharmyaṃ saṃvādam āvayoḥ jñāna-yajñena tenāham iṣṭaḥ syām iti me matiḥ
Translation
And he who shall study this sacred dialogue of ours, by him I shall be worshipped with the sacrifice of wisdom. Such is My mind.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Even merely studying this dialogue counts as worship, “the sacrifice of wisdom” (jnana-yajna) — the same reframing of intellectual engagement as sacrifice that chapter 4 introduced when it ranked the sacrifice of wisdom above sacrifice of substance. Krishna isn’t only rewarding perfect surrender here; he’s building a ladder with multiple rungs that different levels of engagement with the teaching can actually reach.