In plain words
for them, whose minds are absorbed in Me, I soon become the rescuer from the ocean of saṃsāra, which is bound up with death, Partha.
Word for word
Of them I become the deliverer from the ocean of saṃsāra bound up with death, not after long, O Pārtha, of those whose minds are absorbed in Me.
तेषामहं समुद्धर्ता मृत्युसंसारसागरात्भवामि न चिरात् पार्थ मय्यावेशितचेतसाम्
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▸Bhagavadgītābhāṣyam
तेषां किम् ? —
तेषां मदुपासनैकपराणाम् अहम् ईश्वरः समुद्धर्ता । कुतः इति आह — मृत्युसंसारसागरात् मृत्युयुक्तः संसारः मृत्युसंसारः, स एव सागर इव सागरः, दुस्तरत्वात् , तस्मात् मृत्युसंसारसागरात् अहं तेषां समुद्धर्ता भवामि न चिरात् । किं तर्हि ? क्षिप्रमेव हे पार्थ, मयि आवेशितचेतसां मयि विश्वरूपे आवेशितं समाहितं चेतः येषां ते मय्यावेशितचेतसः तेषाम् ॥ ७ ॥
In plain words
So what becomes of them? —
For those whose whole devotion is fixed on worshipping Me alone, I myself, the Lord, am the one who lifts them out. Out of what? Śaṅkara asks and answers: out of the ocean of death-bound saṃsāra. Saṃsāra tied to death is called exactly that, 'the saṃsāra of death', and it is called an ocean because, like the sea, it is nearly impossible to cross on your own. That is why I become their deliverer from that ocean, and not after some long wait. So how quickly, then? Swiftly, Arjuna, for those whose minds are fixed on Me, concentrated on Me in this universal form. That is exactly what it means to have your mind fixed on Me.
Close to the Sanskrit
What [happens] to them? —
Of them, of those solely intent on worship of me, I, the Lord, am the deliverer. From what? He states — from the ocean of the saṃsāra of death: saṃsāra joined with death is 'the saṃsāra of death'; that itself, like an ocean, [is called] 'ocean', because of being hard to cross; therefore, from that ocean of the saṃsāra of death, I become their deliverer — not after a long time. Then what [of the timing]? — quickly indeed, O son of Pṛthā — for those whose mind is fixed on me: whose mind is fixed, concentrated, on me, the universal form — they are 'those whose mind is fixed on me'; of them.