Sanskrit
पुरुषः स परः पार्थ भक्त्या लभ्यस्त्वनन्यया । यस्यान्तःस्थानि भूतानि येन सर्वमिदं ततम् ॥
puruṣaḥ sa paraḥ pārtha bhaktyā labhyas tv ananyayā yasyāntaḥsthāni bhūtāni yena sarvam idaṃ tatam
Translation
He, the highest Spirit, O Pârtha, may be reached by unswerving devotion to Him alone, in whom all beings abide, by whom all This is pervaded.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
How is this supreme akshara reached? Not through the cosmological cycles or the meditative techniques described so far, but through undivided devotion — ananya bhaktya. It’s the first explicit statement in the chapter of bhakti as the actual means of access, foreshadowing the sustained treatment devotion gets in chapters 9 and 12, and it sets up the more elaborate, technical two-paths teaching that begins in verse 23 as a description of timing rather than method.