Verse 8.5

अन्तकाले च मामेव स्मरन्मुक्त्वा कलेवरम् ।

यः प्रयाति स मद्भावं याति नास्त्यत्र संशयः ॥

8.5

Transliteration

antakāle ca māmeva smaranmuktvā kalevaram |

yaḥ prayāti sa madbhāvaṃ yāti nāstyatra saṃśayaḥ ||

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Translation

And whosoever, leaving the body, goes forth remembering Me alone, at the time of death, he attains My Being: there is no doubt about this.

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Word by word

at the last hour
and
me
alone
remembering
leaving
the body

who
departs
he
my being
attains
not
is
here
doubt

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explanation

Krishna turns to Arjuna's question about the time of death. Whoever departs remembering him alone, as the body is left behind, comes to his state of being, mad-bhāva. There is no doubt of this. The verse places great weight on the final moment of life. Yet, as the following verses make clear, that moment is not a matter of chance. What one remembers at the end is shaped by how one has lived. The teaching thus links the hour of death to the whole of life.