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एषा ब्राह्मी स्थितिः पार्थ नैनां प्राप्य विमुह्यति। स्थित्वाऽस्यामन्तकालेऽपि ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृच्छति।।2.72।।

eṣhā brāhmī sthitiḥ pārtha naināṁ prāpya vimuhyati sthitvāsyām anta-kāle ’pi brahma-nirvāṇam ṛichchhati

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 2, Verse 72
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
O son of Pritha, this is the eternal state, the Brahmic seat. Attaining this, one is not deluded. Being established in it, one attains oneness with Brahman even at the end of life.

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Why: the chapter that began with Arjuna unable to lift his bow ends describing a mind unshaken even at the moment of death, the real distance this conversation has covered.

In life: the goal was never to avoid the hard moment, it was to become someone who can meet it standing.

Teaching: measure your own progress the same way, not by whether hard moments stop coming, but by whether you meet them a little steadier each time.

eṣhāsuch
brāhmī sthitiḥstate of God-realization
pārthaArjun, the son of Pritha
nanever
enāmthis
prāpyahaving attained
vimuhyatiis deluded
sthitvābeing established
asyāmin this
anta-kāleat the hour of death
apieven
brahma-nirvāṇamliberation from Maya
ṛichchhatiattains

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
2.72 एषा this? ब्राह्मी of Brahmic? स्थितिः state? पार्थ O Partha? न not? एनाम् this? प्राप्य having obtained? विमुह्यति is deluded? स्थित्वा being established? अस्याम् in this? अन्तकाले at the end of life? अपि even? ब्रह्मनिर्वाणम् oneness with Brahman? ऋच्छति attains.Commentary The state described in the previous verse -- to renounce everything and to live in Brahman -- is the Brahmic state or the state of Brahman. If one attains to this state one is never deluded. He attains Moksha if he stays in that state even at the hour of his death. It is needless to say that he who gets establised in Brahman throughout his life attains to the state of Brahman or,BrahmaNirvana (Cf.VIII.5?6).Maharshi Vidyaranya says in his Panchadasi that Antakala here means the moment at which Avidya or mutual superimposition of the Self and the notSelf ends.Thus in the Upanishads of the glorious Bhagavad Gita? the science of the Eternal? the scripture of Yoga? the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna? ends the second discourse entitledThe Sankhya Yoga.,