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Having attained Me these great souls do not again take birth (here) which is the place of pain and is non-eternal: they have reached the highest perfection (liberation).

Having come to me, the great souls who have reached the highest perfection do not return to rebirth, that impermanent home of sorrow.

Krishna describes the result for those who reach him. These great souls, having attained the highest perfection, do not return to rebirth, which he calls the impermanent home of sorrow. The phrase is stark: embodied life within the round of birth and death (saṃsāra) is marked by suffering and impermanence. Reaching Krishna is presented as release from that round. The verse sets the theme for the following passage, which contrasts the worlds from which one returns with the goal from which one does not.