Yet — having granted freedom — love cannot help but speak once more, and K gives his two supreme assurances. 18.65: “Fix your mind on Me, be devoted to Me, sacrifice to Me, bow to Me; you shall come to Me — this I promise you truly, for you are dear to Me (priyo’si me).” The whole path of canto 9.34 restated as a personal pledge, sealed with tenderness — you are dear to Me. 18.66, the carama-śloka, the “final verse”: “Abandoning all dharmas, take refuge in Me alone (sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṃ śaraṇaṃ vraja); I shall liberate you from all sins — grieve not (ahaṃ tvā sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ).” This is the Gītā’s ultimate word, the peak the whole ascent has been climbing towards. “Abandoning all dharmas” does not mean casting off morality (that would be the demonic 16.23); it means letting go, at the last, even of one’s reliance on one’s own righteous efforts — the final, subtlest attachment, the ego’s clutch on its own virtue — and casting oneself wholly on the Divine. It is the total surrender (prapatti) beyond even the doing of good: not “I will save myself by my dharma,” but “I give up even that, and take refuge in Thee alone.” And the answer is the sweetest promise in the text — I shall free you from all sins; grieve not. Here karma, jñāna and bhakti reach their common summit in a single act of self-giving, met by grace.