Those whose understanding has gone to that Brahman; those for whom that very supreme Brahman is the Self; those whose firm settling, whose deep aim, is in it, who, having renounced all actions, abide in that Brahman alone; and those for whom that alone is the supreme resort, the supreme goal, those whose delight is in the Self alone: beings of this kind, whose ignorance of the Self has been destroyed by knowledge, go to the state of no-return, to no further connection with a body, their stains shaken off by knowledge, the fault, the cause of transmigration such as sin, having been shaken off and destroyed by the knowledge described. So they are ascetics whose stains are shaken off by knowledge. Those whose ignorance of the Self has been destroyed by knowledge, the learned: how do they see the truth? He says.

Those whose understanding is that, whose resolve is on the beholding of the self of such a kind; whose self is that, whose mind is set on it; who are settled in that, given to the practice of it; who have that for their highest goal, for whom that alone is the supreme resort; they, their earlier taint shaken off by the knowledge thus practised, go to the self of such a kind, to no return. The state of the self from which there is no return, that self is 'no-return'; abiding in its own form, that self they go to. This is the meaning.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Krishna states the immediate means to direct knowledge, with 'their buddhi fixed on That'.