Sanskrit
किं पुनर्ब्राह्मणाः पुण्या भक्ता राजर्षयस्तथा । अनित्यमसुखं लोकमिमं प्राप्य भजस्व माम् ॥
kiṃ punar brāhmaṇāḥ puṇyā bhaktā rājarṣayas tathā anityam asukhaṃ lokam imaṃ prāpya bhajasva mām
Translation
How much rather then holy Brâhmanas and devoted royal saints; having obtained this transient joyless world, worship thou Me.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The a fortiori follow-through makes the calibration explicit: if devotion alone gets the excluded groups of verse 32 to the highest goal, then holy brahmins and royal sages (rājarṣayaḥ) — already positioned favorably within the system verse 32 quietly worked around — have even less excuse not to worship, especially given how the world itself is characterized here as transient and joyless (anityam asukham). Arguing from the harder case to the easier one is a recurring Gita move, used elsewhere in the text to universalize a claim by starting from where it’s least expected to hold.