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Bhagavad Gita 18.50

सिद्धिं प्राप्तो यथा ब्रह्म तथाप्नोति निबोध मे।समासेनैव कौन्तेय निष्ठा ज्ञानस्य या परा॥

siddhiṃ prāpto yathā brahma tathāpnoti nibodha me |samāsenaiva kaunteya niṣṭhā jñānasya yā parā ||

Learn from Me, O Arjuna, in brief how one who has attained perfection reaches Brahman—the Eternal, that supreme state of knowledge.

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

I will now state briefly how one who has reached perfection finds the Eternal Spirit, the state of Supreme Wisdom.

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.