The last chapter dwells on the fruits of salvation, phala. In sum, it is the possibility of salvation through knowledge and anubhav in this very life. But if Brahman is the only reality, and jnana consists in understanding our total identity with it, how do we deal with the phenomenal world and the actions it makes incumbent on human beings? How do we reconcile the transitory and unreal nature of things with the concrete and unavoidable requirements of daily life, work and activity? The answer to this is provided in the Bhagavad Gita, on which too Shankara wrote an authoritative and insightful
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