A declaration · expansive in mood · builds on earlier teachings
“True arrival ends the need to come back.”
Great souls who reach me do not return to this painful, temporary cycle of birth.
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Read literallyme · having attained · rebirth · abode of suffering · impermanent · do not attain · great souls · perfect fulfillment · supreme · having reached
Those who reach Krishna do not come back into the painful cycle of birth and death. They have reached the highest fulfillment.
Krishna speaks this verse, on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, in the chapter titled "Akshara Brahma Yoga" (The Imperishable Absolute).
Verse 15 sits in Chapter 8 of the Bhagavad Gita — Akshara Brahma Yoga, "The Imperishable Absolute". The chapter has 28 verses in total.
You pay off the house loan after twenty years and feel the relief, then a new worry moves in. Krishna speaks of a reaching that ends the round of return for good.
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Great souls who reach Krishna never return to birth, which he calls a temporary home of pain.
What this verse means
Those who reach Krishna do not come back into the painful cycle of birth and death. They have reached the highest fulfillment.
Context & commentary
Krishna says that great souls who reach him do not return to this painful, temporary world because they have reached the highest fulfillment.
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You pay off the house loan after twenty years and feel the relief, then a new worry moves in. Krishna speaks of a reaching that ends the round of return for good.
“Reaching Krishna ends the cycle of painful, temporary births for good.”
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