Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 5, Verse 17

तद्बुद्धयस्तदात्मानस्तन्निष्ठास्तत्परायणाः । गच्छन्त्यपुनरावृत्तिं ज्ञाननिर्धूतकल्मषाः

tadbuddhayastadātmānastanniṣṭhāstatparāyaṇāḥ | gacchantyapunarāvṛttiṃ jñānanirdhūtakalmaṣāḥ

Translation

With their consciousness in That, their Self being That, intent on That, with That for their supreme goal, they go never again to return, their sins shaken off by means of wisdom.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

tadbuddhayaḥ

in That, mind, whose, they

tadātmānaḥ

That, only, Self, whose, they

tanniṣṭhāḥ

in That, establishment, whose, they

tatparāyaṇāḥ

That, supreme, goal, whose, they

gacchanti

go (to)

apunarāvṛttim

not-again-returning

jñānanirdhūtakalmaṣāḥ

by wisdom, dispelled, sin, whose, they

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

Fixing their consciousness in Brahman and realising that the very Supreme Brahman is their Self, they renounce all actions and dwell in Brahman alone — the Supreme Brahman being their highest goal, their delight being solely in the unconditioned Self. In the case of such men, all sins and other causes of mundane existence (saṃsāra) are destroyed by wisdom, and they depart from here, never returning to embodied life.