Krishna delivers the ultimate guarantee of grace and redemption. He poses an extreme hypothetical: Even if (api ced) you are (asi) the absolute worst, most sinful among all sinners (pāpebhyaḥ sarvebhyaḥ pāpa-kṛt-tamaḥ). Despite this terrifying karmic debt, you shall cross over entirely (santariṣyasi) this vast ocean of misery and sin (sarvaṃ vṛjinaṃ) by using one specific vehicle: the boat of transcendental knowledge (jñāna-plavenaiva).