तद्बुद्धयस्तदात्मानस्तन्निष्ठास्तत्परायणाः | गच्छन्त्यपुनरावृत्तिं ज्ञाननिर्धूतकल्मषाः ||५-१७||
tadbuddhayastadātmānastanniṣṭhāstatparāyaṇāḥ . gacchantyapunarāvṛttiṃ jñānanirdhūtakalmaṣāḥ ||5-17||
Chapter 5 · Verse 17
Karma Sannyasa Yoga
कर्मसंन्यासयोग
In plain words
They fix their intellects on Brahman or the Supreme Self. They feel and realise that Brahman is their self. By constant and protracted meditation they get established in Brahman.
Translation
5.17 Those whose intellects pursue It (the self), whose minds think about It, who undergo discipline for It, and who hold It as their highest object, have their impurities cleansed by knowledge and go whence there is no return.
Meaning
They fix their intellects on Brahman or the Supreme Self. They feel and realise that Brahman is their self. By constant and protracted meditation they get established in Brahman. The whole world of names and forms vanishes for them. They live in Brahman alone. They have Brahman alone as their supreme goal or sole refuge. They rejoice in the Self alone. They are satisfied in the Self alone. They are contented in the Self alone. Such men never come back to this Samsara as their sins are dispelled by knowledge (BrahmaJnana). (Cf. IX.34)
Word by word
तद्बुद्धयः intellect absorbed in That तदात्मानः their self being That तन्निष्ठाः established in That तत्परायणाः with That for their supreme goal गच्छन्ति go अपुनरावृत्तिम् not again returning ज्ञाननिर्धूतकल्मषाः,those whose sins have been dispelled by knowledge.