Bhagavad Gita · Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga YogaChapter 16, Shloka 1 (16.1)

Shankaracharya. abhayam abhīrutā; saṃvyavahāreṣu paravañcanāmāyānṛtādiparivarjanaṃ — giving up cheating others, deceit and lying in one's dealings is itself purity of being; dānaṃ yathāśakti saṃvibhāgaḥ annādīnām — sharing food and other things according to one's capacity.

Ramanujacharya. iṣṭāniṣṭaviyogasaṃyogarūpasya duḥkhasya hetudarśanajaṃ duḥkhaṃ bhayam — fear is the pain that arises from seeing the cause of losing what is dear and meeting what is unwelcome; dānaṃ nyāyārjitadhanasya pātre pratipādanam — giving justly earned wealth to a worthy person.

Shridhara Swami. The purpose of the chapter: āsurīṃ saṃpadaṃ tyaktvā daivīm evāśritā narāḥ mucyanta iti nirṇetuṃ tadvivekaḥ — those who give up the demonic and take up the divine are liberated — to settle this, the two are distinguished. That is: after 15.20 the question is — ka etat tattvaṃ budhyate ko vā na — who understands this knowledge, and who does not.

Madhusudana Saraswati. He links this to the "roots below" of 15.2 (karmānubandhīni) — those same tendencies appear here as the divine and demonic natures; the divine = vedabodhitakarmātmajñānopāyānuṣṭhānapravṛttihetuḥ sāttvikī śubhavāsanā — a wholesome tendency that engages one in the means to the highest good.

Madhvacharya. pumarthasādhanavirodhi — he shows the faults that oppose the means to life's true goals; his invocation: sādhanavighnahartre namaḥ — salutations to the one who removes the obstacles to spiritual practice.