Chapter 5 - Verse 17

The sage has no more births.

The Supreme Reality having been illuminated by wisdom.

तद्बुद्धयस्तदात्मानस्तन्निष्ठास्तत्परायणाः ।
गच्छन्त्यपुनरावृत्तिं ज्ञाननिर्धूतकल्मषाः ॥ १७ ॥

tadbuddhayastadātmānastanniṣṭhāstatparāyaṇāḥ .
gacchantyapunarāvṛttiṃ jñānanirdhūtakalmaṣāḥ .. 17 ..


With their consciousness in That, their Self being That, intent on That, with That for their supreme goal, they go never again to return, their sins shaken off by means of wisdom.
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Fixing their consciousness in Brahman and realising that the very Supreme Brahman is their Self, they renounce all actions and dwell in Brahman alone,—the Supreme Brahman being their highest goal, their delight being solely in the unconditioned Self. In the case of such men, all sins and other causes of mundane existence (samsara) are destroyed by wisdom described above, and they depart from here, never returning to embodied life.

The sage sees the One in all beings.

How do those wise men see truth whose ignorance of the Self has been removed by knowledge?—Listen: