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Sanskrit

तमेव शरणं गच्छ सर्वभावेन भारत । तत्प्रसादात्परां शान्तिं स्थानं प्राप्स्यसि शाश्वतम् ॥ ६२ ॥

tam eva śaraṇaṃ gaccha sarva-bhāvena bhārata tat-prasādāt parāṃ śāntiṃ sthānaṃ prāpsyasi śāśvatam

Translation

Flee unto Him for shelter with all thy being, O Bhârata; by His grace thou shalt obtain supreme peace, the everlasting dwelling-place.

Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain

Explanation

“Flee unto Him for shelter with all thy being” — the word śaraṇam, shelter or refuge, appears here for the first time in this closing sequence and will recur at the chapter’s most decisive moment, verse 66. This line is priming the vocabulary for what’s coming rather than delivering the full command yet.