Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 8, Verse 15

मामुपेत्य पुनर्जन्म दुःखालयमशाश्वतम् । नाप्नुवन्ति महात्मानः संसिद्धिं परमां गताः

māmupetya punarjanma duḥkhālayamaśāśvatam | nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ saṃsiddhiṃ paramāṃ gatāḥ

Translation

Having attained to Me, they do not again attain birth, which is the seat of pain and is not eternal, they having reached highest perfection.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

mām

me

upetya

having come

punaḥ

again

janma

birth

duḥkhālayam

of sorrows, the place

aśāśvatam

non-eternal

na

not

āpnuvanti

gain

mahātmānaḥ

Mahātmās

saṃsiddhim

to perfection

paramām

(to) highest

gatāḥ

gone

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

Having attained to Me, the Īśvara, having reached My being, they are not again subject to birth. Birth here is the seat of all pain arising from the body, etc., and is of an ever-changing nature. Having reached the highest stage called mokṣa, they do not attain birth again. Those, on the other hand, who do not attain to Me, return again to the earth.