11. What the knowers of the Veda speak of as Imperishable, what the self-controlled, the Sannyâsins, freed from attachment enter, and to gain which goal they live the life of a Brahmachârin, that I shall declare unto you in brief.
12-13. Controlling all the senses, confining the mind in the heart, drawing the Prâna into the head, occupied in the practice of concentration, uttering the one-syllabled "Om"—the Brahman, and meditating on Me—he who so departs, leaving the body, attains the Supreme Goal.
14. I am easily attainable by that ever-steadfast Yogin who remembers Me constantly and daily, with a single mind, O son of Prithâ.
15. Reaching the highest perfection, and having attained Me, the great-souled ones are no more subject to rebirth—which is the home of pain, and ephemeral.
16. All the worlds, O Arjuna, including the realm of Brahmâ, are subject to return, but after attaining Me, O son of Kunti, there is no rebirth.
17. They who know the true measure of day and night, know the day of Brahmâ, which ends in a thousand Yugas (Ages), and the night which also ends in a thousand Yugas.
18. At the approach of Brahmâ's day, all manifestations proceed from the unmanifested state; at the approach of night, they merge verily into that alone, which is called the unmanifested.
19. The very same multitude of beings that existed in the preceding day of Brahmâ, being born again and again, merge, in spite of themselves, O son of Prithâ, into the unmanifested, at the approach of night, and remanifest at the approach of day.
20. But beyond this unmanifested, there is that other Unmanifested, Eternal Existence—That which is not destroyed at the destruction of all beings.
—Bhagavad Gita, 8:11-20
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