Yathora

The Gita · Chapter 2

Bhagavad Gita 2.72

एषा ब्राह्मी स्थितिः पार्थ नैनां प्राप्य विमुह्यति। स्थित्वाऽस्यामन्तकालेऽपि ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृच्छति॥

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

Translation

This is the Eternal state, O son of Prithâ. Having attained thereto, none is bewildered. Who, even at the death-hour, is established therein, he goeth to the Nirvâna of the Eternal.

What it means

This is the state of the Eternal, O Partha; attaining it, none is deluded. Established in it even at the hour of death, one reaches the Nirvana of the Eternal. Chapter 2 ends by planting the goal at the end of life and in every moment before it.

Try this today

Chapter 2 closes: this evenness is not a mood but a state, available and worth stabilizing for life.

Something to reflect on

If this evenness is a state and not a mood, what am I doing to stabilize it?

Read it in Yathora
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Translation by Annie Besant (1905, public domain). The meanings are original to Yathora, drawn from Shankara’s commentary.