सर्वकर्माण्यपि सदा कुर्वाणो मद्व्यपाश्रयः।मत्प्रसादादवाप्नोति शाश्वतं पदमव्ययम्॥
sarva-karmāṇy api sadā kurvāṇo mad-vyapāśrayaḥmat-prasādād avāpnoti śāśvataṃ padam avyayam
Word by word
The verse says
Even while he is always doing all kinds of work, the one who takes shelter in me reaches, by my grace, the lasting place that does not wear out.
In plain words
The promise, and the first three words carry it.
Even while doing all kinds of work. Always. Not between tasks, not after retiring, not in a quiet period.
And what gets him there is named as prasāda - grace. Not his achievement. Something given.
Where you've felt this · at work
Lata manages a busy clinic and has not had a quiet week in nine years. She is also the calmest person most of her staff have met. A new nurse asked how she does it. She thought about it and said she had stopped thinking of the day as hers to get through.
Going deeper
Doing everything and arriving anyway is the claim here, and it is aimed squarely at a reader who thinks the spiritual life requires a different schedule.
The verse goes out of its way to say always and all kinds of work. There is no carve-out for the busy, no suggestion that this is second best compared with withdrawal. The shelter is taken while the work continues.
The other half is the word for grace. The arrival is not described as earned. After seventeen chapters of effort, practice and discipline, the final step is given rather than achieved, which is a more generous ending than the preceding argument strictly required.
Those two together make the offer unusually accessible. You do not need a different life, and you do not need to be good enough. Which removes the two excuses that account for most people never starting.