“At the end of many births the man of knowledge takes refuge in Me, realising Vāsudeva is all (vāsudevaḥ sarvam) — such a great soul is very rare.” Some read the line as showing a metrical irregularity, perhaps to arrest the ear at so weighty a claim. Vāsudeva is at once the son of Vasudeva — Kṛṣṇa the person — and, by derivation, “the one who dwells (vas) in all and in whom all dwell.” To realise “Vāsudeva is all” is therefore not to worship a tribal hero but to see the one indwelling Reality as the whole of what is. That such realisation comes only “at the end of many births,” and to a “very rare” soul, is Kṛṣṇa's own measure of how high it stands.