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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.

Whoever departs at the hour of death remembering me alone as he leaves the body comes to my state of being; of this there is no doubt.

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.