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mām upetya punar janma duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ saḿsiddhiḿ paramāḿ gatāḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 8.15 After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogis in devotion, never return to this temporary...

ā-brahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ punar āvartino ’rjuna mām upetya tu kaunteya punar janma na vidyate Translation of Bhagavad Gita 8.16 From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein...

sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmaṇo viduḥ rātriḿ yuga-sahasrāntāḿ te ’ho-rātra-vido janāḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 8.17 By human calculation, a thousand ages taken together form the duration of Brahma’s one day....

avyaktād vyaktayaḥ sarvāḥ prabhavanty ahar-āgame rātry-āgame pralīyante tatraivāvyakta-saḿjñake Translation of Bhagavad Gita 8.18 At the beginning of Brahma’s day, all living entities become manifest from the unmanifest...

bhūta-grāmaḥ sa evāyaḿ bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate rātry-āgame ’vaśaḥ pārtha prabhavaty ahar-āgame Translation of Bhagavad Gita 8.19 Again and again, when Brahma’s day arrives, all living entities come into being, and with the...

paras tasmāt tu bhāvo ’nyo ’vyakto ’vyaktāt sanātanaḥ yaḥ sa sarveṣu bhūteṣu naśyatsu na vinaśyati Translation of Bhagavad Gita 8.20 Yet there is another unmanifest nature, which is eternal and is transcendental to this...

avyakto ’kṣara ity uktas tam āhuḥ paramāḿ gatim yaḿ prāpya na nivartante tad dhāma paramaḿ mama Translation of Bhagavad Gita 8.21 That which the Vedantists describe as unmanifest and infallible, that which is known as the...

puruṣaḥ sa paraḥ pārtha bhaktyā labhyas tv ananyayā yasyāntaḥ-sthāni bhūtāni yena sarvam idaḿ tatam Translation of Bhagavad Gita 8.22 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is greater than all, is attainable by unalloyed...

yatra kāle tv anāvṛttim āvṛttiḿ caiva yoginaḥ prayātā yānti taḿ kālaḿ vakṣyāmi bharatarṣabha Translation of Bhagavad Gita 8.23 O best of the Bharatas, I shall now explain to you the different times at which, passing away...

agnir jyotir ahaḥ śuklaḥ ṣaṇ-māsā uttarāyaṇam tatra prayātā gacchanti brahma brahma-vido janāḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 8.24 Those who know the Supreme Brahman attain that Supreme by passing away from the world during...