Mam Upetya Punarjanma

Krishna says plainly: those great souls who reach Me do not return to this world of suffering and impermanence. They have attained the highest perfection.

Krishna calls this world "duhkhalayam" — a house of sorrow — and "ashashvatam" — fleeting. This is not pessimism. It is simply an honest description. Carrying an umbrella in the rain is not pessimism — it is practical wisdom. Recognizing that the world is transient, and then turning toward the eternal, is the wisest move one can make.

And once a soul reaches God, there is no return. No more sorrow, no more impermanence. That is the ultimate freedom, the ultimate success.

This shloka completes the promise of 8.14 — constant remembrance makes God accessible (8.14), and once God is reached, there is no return to the cycle of birth and death (8.15). The next shloka (8.16) emphasizes that even Brahmaloka, the highest created realm, is subject to return — only God's abode is final.