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Four kinds of virtuous men worship Me, O Arjuna, and they are the distressed, the seekr of knowledge, the seekr of wealth and the wise, O lord of the Bharatas.

Four kinds of virtuous people worship me, Arjuna: the distressed, the seeker of knowledge, the seeker of wealth, and the one who knows, best of the Bharatas.

Krishna describes four kinds of virtuous people who worship him. There is the person in distress, who turns to God in suffering; the seeker of knowledge; the seeker of wealth or worldly good; and the jñānī, the one who knows. The verse is generous: all four are called sukṛtin, those who have done good, even those who come for practical help. The Gita does not despise motives such as need or curiosity. They too bring people into relation with the divine, and may in time grow into something deeper.