Sanskrit
तद्बुद्धयस्तदात्मानस्तन्निष्ठास्तत्परायणाः । गच्छन्त्यपुनरावृत्तिं ज्ञाननिर्धूतकल्मषाः ॥
tadbuddhayas tadātmānas tanniṣṭhās tatparāyaṇāḥ gacchanty apunarāvṛttiṃ jñānanirdhūtakalmaṣāḥ
Translation
Thinking on That, merged in That, established in That, solely devoted to That, they go whence there is no return, their sins dispelled by wisdom.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Four compounds built on tad, “That,” the Supreme, stack up in the first line — intellect fixed on it, self merged in it, grounded in it, devoted wholly to it — a rhetorical technique the Gita reaches for when it wants total absorption to feel structurally total rather than merely described as total. Apunarāvṛtti, non-return, names the destination precisely: release from the rebirth cycle, achieved here through sins being nirdhūta, shaken off, by knowledge rather than through ritual expiation. It’s a fitting capstone to the argument of the preceding three verses — once ignorance is uncovered, the residue it left behind doesn’t need separate treatment; it falls away with the ignorance that generated it.