Sanskrit
इदं ज्ञानमुपाश्रित्य मम साधर्म्यमागताः । सर्गेऽपि नोपजायन्ते प्रलये न व्यथन्ति च ॥
idaṃ jñānam upāśritya mama sādharmyam āgatāḥ sarge'pi nopajāyante pralaye na vyathanti ca
Translation
Having taken refuge in this Wisdom and being assimilated to My own nature, they are not re-born even in the emanation of a universe, nor are disquieted in the dissolution.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The scale of the claim widens immediately: this isn’t freedom from one more human rebirth, it’s freedom from the entire cosmic cycle of emanation (sarga) and dissolution (pralaya) — the periodic birth and death of a universe itself. Whatever this wisdom turns out to be, verse 2 is already telling Arjuna its stakes are cosmological, not personal, which is why the chapter spends the next several verses building outward from cosmogony (verses 3-4) before narrowing down to the individual’s condition (verse 5 onward).