After many births, the wise one surrenders, realizing 'Vasudeva is everything.' Such a great soul is exceedingly rare. This verse captures the culmination of all spiritual seeking. Shankara sees 'Vasudeva is everything' as the non-dual realization — sarvam khalvidam brahma. Ramanuja reads it as recognizing the Lord as the inner Self of all. The bhakti tradition treasures this as the ultimate surrender born of wisdom, not desperation. Madhva explains this as recognizing Vishnu's sovereign Lordship over all existence, not that everything becomes God. Abhinavagupta reads it as the ultimate pratyabhijña: all of this is consciousness, and consciousness is one. Vallabhacharya calls this the mahavakya of shuddhadvaita — nothing exists outside Krishna's being. Tilak interprets it as the understanding that transforms all action into worship. Vivekananda sees this realization as the birthright of every soul, the 'many births' representing stages of evolution through which everyone moves toward supreme awakening.