Sanskrit
एषा ब्राह्मी स्थितिः पार्थ नैनां प्राप्य विमुह्यति । स्थित्वाऽस्यामन्तकालेऽपि ब्रह्म निर्वाणमृच्छति ॥
eṣā brāhmī sthitiḥ pārtha naināṃ prāpya vimuhyati sthitvāsyām antakāle'pi brahma nirvāṇam ṛcchati
Translation
This is the Eternal state, O son of Prithâ. Having attained thereto, none is bewildered. Who, even at the death-hour, is established therein, he goeth to the Nirvâna of the Eternal.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Chapter 2’s closing line, and its highest claim: the state just described isn’t only psychological composure, it’s identified outright as brāhmī sthiti, standing in Brahman — and it remains available even at the very moment of death. That last clause closes a long arc that began at verse 11’s rebuke over grief for the dead: the chapter that opened by arguing death is not what Arjuna thinks it is ends by naming what death can actually be met with.
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