ये तु धर्म्यामृतमिदं यथोक्तं पर्युपासते।श्रद्दधाना मत्परमा भक्तास्तेऽतीव मे प्रियाः॥
ye tu dharmyāmṛtam idaṃ yathoktaṃ paryupāsateśraddadhānā mat-paramā bhaktās te ’tīva me priyāḥ
Word by word
The verse says
Those who take up this nectar of the lasting way, just as it has been told, with faith, holding me as the highest — those devotees are exceedingly dear to me.
In plain words
The chapter closes with the warmest line in the book.
Atīva me priyāḥ — exceedingly dear to me. The refrain has been building to this for seven verses.
And dharmyāmṛtam — the nectar of what is right. The list just given is called nectar, not duty.
Where you've felt this · in relationships
At the end of a long visit your aunt stands at the door and says she is glad you came, and then says it again because the first one did not seem to have been enough. Nothing is being asked for. She is simply not finished saying it.
Going deeper
A chapter that began with a technical question ends with somebody saying how much they like you, and the distance travelled is the point.
Arjuna asked which practice was superior. Twenty verses later the answer has turned out to be a description of a kind of person, followed by a statement of affection repeated six times with increasing warmth. The question was about method. The answer is about relationship.
The word for nectar is doing real work. What has been described — patience, evenness, the absence of mine and I — is hard, and calling it nectar reframes it as something you would want rather than something you must do.
And the last line is worth taking personally, since nothing in it is conditional on success. It describes people taking this up, with faith, not people who have finished.