मामुपेत्य पुनर्जन्म दुःखालयमशाश्वतम् | नाप्नुवन्ति महात्मानः संसिद्धिं परमां गताः ||८-१५||
māmupetya punarjanma duḥkhālayamaśāśvatam . nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ saṃsiddhiṃ paramāṃ gatāḥ ||8-15||
Chapter 8 · Verse 15
Akshara Brahma Yoga
अक्षरब्रह्मयोग
In plain words
Birth is the home of pain or seat of sorrow arising from the body. Study the Garbhopanishad. There the nature of pain i.
Translation
8.15 As a result of reaching Me, the exalted ones who have attained the highest perfection do not get rirth which is an abode of sorrows and which is impermanent. 8.15 Having attained Me these great souls do not again take birth (here) which is the place of pain and is non-eternal: they have reached the highest perfection (liberation). 8.15 Upetya mam, as a result of reaching Me who am God-as a result of realizing My nature; mahatmanah, the exalted ones, the monks; gatah, who have attained; the paramam, highest; samsiddhim, perfection, called Liberation; na, do not; apnuvanti, get; this kind of punarjanama, rirth. As to what kind of rirth they do not get, the Lord states its characteristics-duhkhalayam, which is an abode of sorrows, a resort of physical and other sorrows, i.e. a birth to which sorrows adhere. It is not merely an abode of sorrows, but also asavatam, impermanent, having no fixity of nature. On the other hand, those who do not reach Me, they come again. Again, 'Is it that those who attain someone other than You return?' This is being answered:
Meaning
Birth is the home of pain or seat of sorrow arising from the body. Study the Garbhopanishad. There the nature of pain i.e. how the child is confined in the womb and how it is pressed during its passage along the vaginal canal and the neck of the womb or uterus is described. Further it is much affected by the PrasutiVayu (the vital air which is responsible for the delivery of the child). Mahatmas (great souls) are free from Rajas and Tamas. Having attained Me This denotes KramaMukti or gradual liberation. The devotees who pass along the Devayana through the force of their Upasana attain to Brahmaloka (the world of Brahma the Creator) or Satyaloka (the world of truth the highest of the seven worlds) and there enjoy all the divine wealth and glory of the Lord and then attain to Kaivalya Moksha (final liberation) through the knowledge of Brahman along with Brahma during the cosmic dissolution. Mahatmas or great souls who have attained Moksha do not come again to birth. Those who have not attained Me take birth again in this world.
Word by word
माम् to Me उपेत्य having attained पुनर्जन्म rirth दुःखालयम् the place of pain अशाश्वतम् noneternal न not आप्नुवन्ति get महात्मानः Mahatmas or the great souls संसिद्धिम् to perfection परमाम् highest गताः having reached.