Sanskrit · Devanagari
अन्तकाले च मामेव स्मरन्मुक्त्वा कलेवरम्। यः प्रयाति स मद्भावं याति नास्त्यत्र संशयः ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
antakāle ca māmeva smaranmuktvā kalevaram yaḥ prayāti sa madbhāvaṃ yāti nāstyatra saṃśayaḥ
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882There is no doubt of that.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।8.5।। --,अन्तकाले च मरणकाले च मामेव परमेश्वरं विष्णुं स्मरन् मुक्त्त्वा परित्यज्य कलेवरं शरीरं यः प्रयाति गच्छति सः मद्भावं वैष्णवं तत्त्वं याति। नास्ति न विद्यते अत्र अस्मिन् अर्थे संशयः -- याति वा न वा इति।।न मद्विषय एव अयं नियमः। किं तर्हि --,
816c97ceba1e…Rāmānuja
8.5 He who, at the last moment, while leaving the body, departs remembering Me alone, attains My being; he attains My condition. In whatever way he meditates on Me, he attains that very form, in the same manner as the royal sage Bharata attained the form of the deer remembered by him at death. Such is the meaning. Sri Krsna further elucidates that it is the nature of one's last thought that leads to the attainment of a similar form by the meditator:
57af01c517f3…Swami Sivananda
8.5 No Commentary.
d040c86f69ea…These supplied texts come from the pinned VedicScriptures dataset under GPL-3.0 and await independent alignment review.