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Bhagavad Gita 14.14

यदा सत्त्वे प्रवृद्धे तु प्रलयं याति देहभृत्।तदोत्तमविदां लोकानमलान्प्रतिपद्यते॥

yadā sattve pravṛddhe tu pralayaṃ yāti dehabhṛt |tadottamavidāṃ lokānamalānpratipadyate ||

If the embodied one meets death when Sattva is predominant, then they attain the spotless worlds of the knowers of the Highest.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

When purity prevails, the soul, upon leaving the body, passes on to the pure regions where those who know the Highest reside.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.