Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 9, Verse 31
क्षिप्रं भवति धर्मात्मा शश्वच्छान्तिं निगच्छति । कौन्तेय प्रतिजानीहि न मे भक्तः प्रणश्यति
kṣipraṃ bhavati dharmātmā śaśvacchāntiṃ nigacchati | kaunteya pratijānīhi na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati
Translation
Soon he becomes righteous and attains eternal peace; do thou, O son of Kuntī, proclaim that My devotee never perishes.
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- kṣipram
- quickly
- bhavati
- becomes
- dharmātmā
- in righteousness, self, whose, he
- śaśvat
- eternal
- śāntim
- peace
- nigacchati
- goes
- kaunteya
- O Kaunteya
- pratijānīhi
- know
- na
- not
- me
- (of) my
- bhaktaḥ
- devotee
- praṇaśyati
- is destroyed
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
Listen, this is the real truth: thou mayest proclaim that he who is devoted to Me in his inner soul never perishes.