If even a small devotee gives abundant results by affection, or if one opposite gives opposite results, then ‘I am equal’ — ‘samo’ham — is said. Then comes ‘there is no point of devotion’ — ‘ye bhajanti’ (those who worship). ‘In me they are, and I also in them’—‘mam te vashah’ means ‘they are under my control, and I am under theirs.’ In Paingala‑Khila: ‘Those who worship the supreme person are under his control; and indeed I am also under their control.’ Are they always under that sway? Still there is distinction based on whether devotion precedes knowledge or vice versa — as with Uddhava, Shishupala, etc. It is said there: one who is first without knowledge is under restraint; by meditation he again becomes controlled; if knowledge comes first, then control follows.