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Bhagavad Gītā 8.15

BG 8.15

मामुपेत्य पुनर्जन्म दुःखालयमशाश्वतम्। नाप्नुवन्ति महात्मानः संसिद्धिं परमां गताः

mām upetya punar janma duḥkhālayam aśhāśhvatam nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ sansiddhiṁ paramāṁ gatāḥ

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.

Translated by Shri Purohit Swami

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.

Translated by Swami Sivananda

Word meanings (from the gita/gita dataset)

mām—me; upetya—having attained; punaḥ—again; janma—birth; duḥkha-ālayam—place full of miseries; aśhāśhvatam—temporary; na—never; āpnuvanti—attain; mahā-ātmānaḥ—the great souls; sansiddhim—perfection; paramām—highest; gatāḥ—having achieved

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Cite as: Bhagavad Gītā 8.15, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/BG/8.15), after https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/gita/gita@main (gita/gita on GitHub, Unlicense).

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