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Bhagavad Gita 8.15

मामुपेत्य पुनर्जन्म दुःखालयमशाश्वतम्।नाप्नुवन्ति महात्मानः संसिद्धिं परमां गताः॥

māmupetya punarjanma duḥkhālayamaśāśvatam |nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ saṃsiddhiṃ paramāṃ gatāḥ ||

Having attained Me, these great souls do not take birth again here—a place of pain and impermanence—but have reached the highest perfection of liberation.

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

Coming to Me in this way, these great souls no longer go to the misery and death of earthly life, for they have achieved perfection.

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 8.15 · SatsangVidya