Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 8: The Imperishable Absolute

Bhagavad Gita 8.11

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

I will tell you briefly of that state which the knowers of the Veda call the imperishable, which ascetics free from passion enter, and for the sake of which they live a life of celibacy.

Modern context

Krishna describes the goal from three directions at once. Scholars of the Veda call it the imperishable. Ascetics free from passion enter it. People live disciplined lives in order to reach it. Three very different kinds of seeker, the learned, the renunciant and the disciplined, are all heading for the same place. And he promises to tell it 'briefly', a reminder that the truth at the centre of all these paths can be put simply.