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 finally get what you thought would fix everything, and it still feels unfinished. This verse points to a deeper arrival, where the old hunger to keep chasing simply stops.
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It shifts the goal from temporary relief to final release from the cycle of return.
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
On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, Arjuna is being taught how to leave the cycle of repeated birth. Krishna says that great souls who reach him do not return to this painful, temporary world because they have reached the highest fulfillment.
Why this verse still matters
You finally get what you thought would fix everything, and it still feels unfinished. This verse points to a deeper arrival, where the old hunger to keep chasing simply stops.
“There is relief in knowing the deepest arrival ends the need to come back again.”
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