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मामुपेत्य पुनर्जन्म दुःखालयमशाश्वतम्। नाप्नुवन्ति महात्मानः संसिद्धिं परमां गताः।।8.15।।

mām upetya punar janma duḥkhālayam aśhāśhvatam nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ sansiddhiṁ paramāṁ gatāḥ

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 8, Verse 15
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Having attained Me, these great souls do not take birth again here - a place of pain and impermanence - but have reached the highest perfection of liberation.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: having attained Krishna, great souls do not return to this impermanent world of suffering, having reached the highest perfection, framing lasting fulfillment as the actual alternative to endlessly cycling through the same impermanent patterns.

In life: chasing the same temporary satisfactions over and over, without ever addressing the underlying craving, keeps you cycling through the same basic pattern indefinitely.

Teaching: notice a specific pattern of temporary satisfaction you keep returning to and re-losing, and consider addressing the underlying craving directly rather than repeating the same short cycle indefinitely.

māmme
upetyahaving attained
punaḥagain
janmabirth
duḥkha-ālayamplace full of miseries
aśhāśhvatamtemporary
nanever
āpnuvantiattain
mahā-ātmānaḥthe great souls
sansiddhimperfection
paramāmhighest
gatāḥhaving achieved

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
8.15 माम् to Me? उपेत्य having attained? पुनर्जन्म rirth? दुःखालयम् the place of pain? अशाश्वतम् noneternal? न not? आप्नुवन्ति get? महात्मानः Mahatmas or the great souls? संसिद्धिम् to perfection? परमाम् highest? गताः having reached.Commentary Birth is the home of pain or seat of sorrow arising from the body. Study the Garbhopanishad. There the nature of pain? i.e.? how the child is confined in the womb? and how it is pressed during its passage along the vaginal canal and the neck of the womb or uterus? is described. Further it is much affected by the PrasutiVayu (the vital air which is responsible for the delivery of the child).Mahatmas (great souls) are free from Rajas and Tamas.Having attained Me This denotes KramaMukti or gradual liberation. The devotees who pass along the Devayana through the force of their Upasana? attain to Brahmaloka (the world of Brahma the Creator) or Satyaloka (the world of truth? the highest of the seven worlds) and there enjoy all the divine wealth and glory of the Lord and then attain to Kaivalya Moksha (final liberation) through the knowledge of Brahman? along with Brahma during the cosmic dissolution.Mahatmas or great souls who have attained Moksha do not come again to birth. Those who have not attained Me? take birth again in this world.