The seers, the seers of the supreme truth, the renouncers, gain the extinction in Brahman, liberation: those whose stains are worn away, whose sins are worn away, the faultless; whose doubt is cut away; of restrained self, of subdued senses; given to the welfare of all beings, taking delight in the welfare, the well-being, of all beings, that is, those who do no harm. Further.

Those whose doubleness is cut, freed of the pairs of opposites, cold, heat, and the rest; whose selves are restrained, whose minds are restrained on the self alone; who delight in the welfare of all beings, given to the welfare of all beings as of their own self; the sages, the seers, given to the beholding of the self; such men, the taint that obstructs the attaining of the self worn wholly away, gain Brahman-nirvana. The Lord says that for those of the qualities described Brahman is exceedingly easy to attain.

And this comes about through the wearing away of sin, Krishna says, with 'they attain'. Having become those whose stains are worn away, they are those whose doubleness is cut and whose selves are controlled. 'Doubleness' (dvaidha) is a being-twofold, that is, doubt or wrong cognition; so it is said, 'wrong cognition, or doubt, is the doubleness of those whose selves are unmade; cutting it with the sword of knowledge, let one go forth with attachment gone'. Those whose doubleness is cut are themselves those of expansive self, of far-reaching mind, the all-knowing; that is the sense, and for that very reason they are those whose doubleness is cut. So it is said, 'those whose sin is worn away are born of great knowledge, with doubt gone'. Or else the reading is 'those whose doubleness is cut, whose selves are controlled'.