Sādhaks
(spiritual practitioners) follow different paths of spirituality to reach the Absolute Truth.  Shree Krishna previously described those who are devotees.  They surrender themselves with devotion at the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord, in the attitude of being His eternal parts and servants.  He now describes some of the other paths that
sādhaks
follow.
Those who follow the path of
jñāna-yog
consider themselves to be non-different from God.  They contemplate deeply on
sūtras
such as
so ’haṁ
(I am That),
śhivo ’haṁ
(I am Shiv), etc.  Their ultimate goal is to attain realization of the Supreme Entity as the undifferentiated Brahman, which possesses the attributes of eternality, knowledge, and bliss, but is devoid of forms, qualities, virtues, and pastimes.  Shree Krishna says that such
jñāna yogis
also worship Him, but in His formless all-pervading aspect.  In contrast, there are varieties of
aṣhṭāṅg
yogis
etc. who see themselves as distinct from God and relate to Him accordingly.
Still others worship the manifest universe as God.  In Vedic philosophy, this is called
viśhwaroop upāsanā
(worship of the cosmic form of God).  In western philosophy, it is called “Pantheism” from the Greek words pan (all) and theos (God).  The most famous exponent of this philosophy has been Spinoza.  Since the world is a part of God, keeping a divine sentiment toward it is not wrong, but it is incomplete.  Such devotees do not have knowledge of the other aspects of the Supreme Divine Entity, such as Brahman (God’s undifferentiated all-pervading manifestation),
Paramātmā
(the Supreme Soul seated in everyone’s hearts), and
Bhagavān
(the personal form of God).
How can all these divergent approaches worship the same God?  Shree Krishna answers this in the following verses.