Sanskrit
युञ्जन्नेवं सदाऽऽत्मानं योगी नियतमानसः । शान्तिं निर्वाणपरमां मत्संस्थामधिगच्छति ॥
yuñjann evaṃ sadātmānaṃ yogī niyatamānasaḥ śāntiṃ nirvāṇaparamāṃ matsaṃsthām adhigacchati
Translation
The Yogi ever united thus with the Self, with the mind controlled, goeth to Peace, to the supreme Bliss that abideth in Me.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
This closes the physical-instruction block of verses 11–14 by naming its destination: peace that has nirvana as its highest point, located in Krishna (mat-samstham). The word nirvana here is doing genuinely cross-tradition work — Besant’s “supreme Bliss” glosses a term more associated with the Buddhist extinguishing of craving, folded here into a theistic frame.
Concepts