Verse 18.50
सिद्धिं प्राप्तो यथा ब्रह्म तथाप्नोति निबोध मे ।
समासेनैव कौन्तेय निष्ठा ज्ञानस्य या परा ॥
Transliteration
siddhiṃ prāpto yathā brahma tathāpnoti nibodha me |
samāsenaiva kaunteya niṣṭhā jñānasya yā parā ||
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3
Translation
Learn from Me in brief, O Arjuna, how he who has attained perfection reaches Brahman (the Eternal), that supreme state of knowledge.
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Learn from me briefly, son of Kunti, how one who has gained perfection reaches Brahman, which is the highest culmination of knowledge.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08 · +1 more
Word by word
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08
Explanation
Krishna now briefly explains how one who has reached this perfection attains Brahman, which he calls the highest culmination of knowledge (jñāna). The verse introduces a short description of the final stages of the spiritual path. Having spoken of action and duty, Krishna turns to what lies at their summit. The word briefly signals that he is summarising teachings given at length earlier in the dialogue.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08