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Bhagavad Gita 5.25

लभन्ते ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृषयः क्षीणकल्मषाः।छिन्नद्वैधा यतात्मानः सर्वभूतहिते रताः॥

labhante brahmanirvāṇamṛṣayaḥ kṣīṇakalmaṣāḥ |chinnadvaidhā yatātmānaḥ sarvabhūtahite ratāḥ ||

The sages obtain absolute freedom or Moksha when their sins have been destroyed, their dualities have been torn asunder, they are self-controlled, and they are intent on the welfare of all beings.

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

Sages whose sins have been washed away, whose sense of separateness has dissipated, who have subdued themselves, and seek only the welfare of all, come to the Eternal Spirit.

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.

Bhagavad Gita 5.25 · SatsangVidya