📿 Shloka Collection

Esha Brahmi Sthitih Partha

Gita 2.72 Bhagavad Gita
📖 Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2 — Sankhya Yoga
एषा ब्राह्मी स्थितिः पार्थ नैनां प्राप्य विमुह्यति ।
स्थित्वास्यामन्तकालेऽपि ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृच्छति ॥
Esha brahmi sthitih Partha nainam prapya vimuhyati
Sthitvasyam antakale'pi brahma-nirvanam richchhati
एषा
this
ब्राह्मी स्थितिः
the state of Brahman
पार्थ
O Partha (Arjuna)
न एनाम् प्राप्य
having attained this
विमुह्यति
is not deluded
स्थित्वा
being established
अस्याम्
in this (state)
अन्तकाले अपि
even at the hour of death
ब्रह्मनिर्वाणम्
Brahma-Nirvana, liberation in Brahman
ऋच्छति
attains

The chapter closes with a door thrown wide open. This, Krishna says, is Brahmi Sthiti — the state of Brahman, the ground of all reality. Whoever reaches it is never deluded again. And even if this state is reached only at the last moment of life — at the very hour of death — Brahma-Nirvana is attained. Liberation is never too late.

That last detail carries extraordinary compassion. A lifetime of struggle, doubt, failure — and still, the door does not close. Even at the final breath, if this clarity dawns, it is enough. The journey of the entire chapter — from Arjuna's despair to the nature of the soul to selfless action to the portrait of the Sthitaprajna — arrives here, at an unconditional promise.

After a long journey, when the traveler finally sees home, all the weariness of the road dissolves. This shloka is that moment for Chapter 2. The road was long — grief, philosophy, duty, discipline — but it leads to Brahma-Nirvana, and the door is open to everyone, always.

This is the closing shloka of Chapter 2, Sankhya Yoga. Krishna covered three vast subjects in this chapter: the nature of the Atman (soul), the path of Karma Yoga (selfless action), and the marks of the Sthitaprajna (person of steady wisdom). This final verse gathers them all under one name: Brahmi Sthiti.

The compound Brahma-Nirvana is notable. It joins the Vedantic concept of Brahman with the word nirvana, which appears in Buddhist and Jain traditions as well. The Gita's use of both reflects its integrative spirit — drawing from multiple streams of Indian thought into a single, coherent teaching.

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