संनियम्येन्द्रियग्रामं सर्वत्र समबुद्धयः।ते प्राप्नुवन्ति मामेव सर्वभूतहिते रताः॥
sanniyamyendriya-grāmaṃ sarvatra sama-buddhayaḥ te prāpnuvanti mām eva sarva-bhūta-hite ratāḥ
Word by word
The verse says
— holding all their senses in, even-minded everywhere, taking delight in the good of all beings: they reach me too.
In plain words
Te prāpnuvanti mām eva — they reach me as well.
The other road arrives. That is said without any hesitation, immediately after the preference was stated.
And look at the condition attached: delight in the welfare of all beings. The abstract path is given a very concrete test.
Where you've felt this · at work
A colleague who never talks about principles is the one who notices that the cleaner has been given an impossible shift pattern, and quietly gets it changed. He would be embarrassed to be asked why. Whatever he believes, this is where it shows up.
Going deeper
The test attached to the formless path is behavioural, and that is the detail that keeps this passage honest.
Somebody could claim to be worshipping the unmanifest and simply be avoiding the demands of a relationship. The verse closes that off. Sarva-bhūta-hite ratāḥ — delighting in the good of all beings. If the abstract route is real it will be visible in how somebody treats people, and if it is not visible, something else is going on.
That is the same move Chapter 5 made when it measured realisation by how a learned man treats an outcaste.
Which leaves a usable question for anybody on either road. The test is never what you can say about God. It is whether the people around you are better off for your practice, and that is not a question you get to answer about yourself.