Shloka 15
विभूति-योगः (Vibhūti-yoga) — Exemplary Manifestations as a Contemplative Index
मामुपेत्य पुनर्जन्म दुःखालयमशाश्रवतम् । नाप्रुवन्ति महात्मान: संसिद्धिं परमां गता:
mām upetya punarjanma duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam | nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ saṁsiddhiṁ paramāṁ gatāḥ ||
Those great-souled ones who have attained the supreme perfection do not return to rebirth—this impermanent world that is a dwelling-place of suffering—after reaching Me.
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Attaining the Supreme (Krishna) culminates in saṁsiddhi—final spiritual perfection—after which the liberated do not return to saṁsāra, described here as impermanent and intrinsically bound up with suffering.
In the midst of the Kurukṣetra war setting, the Gītā’s instruction turns to the ultimate goal: Krishna states that the realized and perfected do not come back to repeated birth once they have reached Him, contrasting liberation with the painful, transient cycle of worldly existence.