# Bhagavad Gita 8.11

**Canonical reference:** `gita.8.11`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यदक्षरं वेदविदो वदन्ति
विशन्ति यद्यतयो वीतरागाः।
यदिच्छन्तो ब्रह्मचर्यं चरन्ति
तत्ते पदं संग्रहेण प्रवक्ष्ये ॥

## IAST

yadakṣaraṃ vedavido vadanti viśanti yadyatayo vītarāgāḥ
yadicchanto brahmacaryaṃ caranti tatte padaṃ saṃgraheṇa pravakṣye

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

I will tell you briefly about the seat, which those who know the Vedas declare to be indestructible which entered by ascetics from whom all desires have departed and wishing for which, people pursue the mode of life of Brahmacārins . He who leaves the body and departs (from this world) stopping up all passages

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