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Chapter 8 · Verse 5 · Akshara Brahma Yoga

Bhagavad Gita 8.5

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Sanskrit

अन्तकाले च मामेव स्मरन्मुक्त्वा कलेवरम्। यः प्रयाति स मद्भावं याति नास्त्यत्र संशयः।।8.5।।

Transliteration

anta-kāle cha mām eva smaran muktvā kalevaram yaḥ prayāti sa mad-bhāvaṁ yāti nāstyatra sanśhayaḥ

Word by Word

anta-kāle at the time of death
cha and
mām me
eva alone
smaran remembering
muktvā relinquish
kalevaram the body
yaḥ who
prayāti goes
saḥ he
mat-bhāvam Godlike nature
yāti achieves
na no
asti there is
atra here
sanśhayaḥ doubt
Simplified Perspective

In your final breath, consciousness becomes your truest offering. Krishna promises that whatever fills your mind at death—your deepest love, your constant remembrance—that becomes your destination, your very nature in what follows.

This is not reward or punishment, but the simple law of consciousness itself: you become what you contemplate. For us today, this means every act of remembrance, every prayer, every moment of turning inward toward the Divine is not separate from our death—it is already shaping our eternity, right now.

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Bhagavad Gita 8.5 — BG 8.5

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