टीका

Commentary

This is the final verse of Chapter 2 — and it is a fitting close. Having begun with Arjuna collapsed in grief and bewilderment on the battlefield, the chapter ends with a vision of the state where bewilderment is permanently dissolved. Brahmee sthitih — the divine state, the state of Brahman — is the summit toward which everything the Gita teaches is pointing. This verse both names that summit and gives the ultimate promise: even at the hour of death, if you are established here, liberation is yours.

Brahmee Sthitih — The State of Brahman

Brahmee sthitih is a rich and beautiful phrase. Brahman in Vedanta is the infinite, the ultimate reality, the ground of all being — that which is prior to and underlies all appearance. Sthiti means a state, a condition, an established way of being. So brahmee sthitih is the condition of one who is established in, or identified with, Brahman itself. This is not a theological abstraction. It is a description of the sthitaprajna whose portrait has been painted across the preceding verses: the one who is unmoved by opposites, whose senses are withdrawn like a tortoise, who finds the ocean of peace within, who is free from desire, fear, and anger. All of that is the practical expression of this single phrase.

Na Enaam Praapya Vimuhyati — No More Bewilderment

The promise is stark and total: na enaam praapya vimuhyati — having attained this, one is never again bewildered. Moha — bewilderment, delusion — is the fundamental confusion of the untrained mind: mistaking the temporary for the permanent, the body for the Self, the surface of life for its depth. When brahmee sthitih is attained, that root confusion is dissolved — not managed, not suppressed, but dissolved at the source. This is moksha — liberation — not as a future event but as a present reality.

Even at the Hour of Death

Anta-kaale-pi — even at the time of death. The tradition has always held that the state of consciousness at the moment of death has profound significance for what follows. But the Gita does not leave this to chance or to last-minute effort. The teaching of the entire chapter is: live in this state now. Practice equanimity now. Withdraw from reactivity now. Let desires flow through without creating binding impressions now. If this practice becomes your way of being — your natural ground — then even the most disorienting moment of all, death itself, will find you established and clear. And from that clarity, the Gita says, the infinite opens: brahma-nirvanam ricchati — one attains the peace of Brahman, the liberation of the infinite.