Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2, Verse 72

एषा ब्राह्मी स्थितिः पार्थ नैनां प्राप्य विमुह्यति । स्थित्वास्यामन्तकालेऽपि ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृच्छति

eṣā brāhmī sthitiḥ pārtha naināṃ prāpya vimuhyati | sthitvāsyāmantakāle'pi brahmanirvāṇamṛcchati

Translation

This is the Brāhmic state, O son of Pṛthā. Attaining to this, none is deluded. Remaining in this state even at the last period of life, one attains to the felicity of Brahman.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

eṣā

this

brāhmī

of Brahman

sthitiḥ

status

pārtha

O Pārtha

na

not

enām

this

prāpya

having obtained

vimuhyati

is confused

sthitvā

having sat (been established)

asyām

in this

antakāle

of the end, in the time

api

even

brahmanirvāṇam

of Brahman, to Nirvāṇa

ṛcchati

attains

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

This — the state just described — is the Brāhmic state (brāhmī sthiti): the state of one who abides in the Brahman, the Self. Attaining to it, none is again deluded by the false identification with body and senses. Remaining steady in this state even at the end of life (anta-kāle), at the hour of death, one attains the felicity of Brahman (brahma-nirvāṇam) — final liberation, in which the apparent individuality is wholly absorbed in the Brahman that is Bliss. With this verse — the cap of the chapter — the Lord concludes the teaching of Sāṅkhya wisdom that began at 2.11 and the teaching of Yoga wisdom that began at 2.39, showing that both paths converge in the one state of the liberated sage.