Bhagavatgita a detailed study chapter5-yoga of renunciation

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17. thath budDhaayaH thadhaathmaanaH

thannishTaaH thath paraayaNaaH

 

gacchanthi apunaraavrthhim

 

jnaana nirDhootha kalmashaaH

 

Their intellect riveted in the self, being engrossed in the self, contemplating on the self and fixing their goal as the self, the yogis whose impurities are washed away by jnana reach the state of no return.

 

When the knowledge of the self dawns in the mind of seeker, the ignorance which is the cause of "I " ness and "MY "ness is removed,and he becomes jnaana nirDhootha kalamasha, all the effects of ignorance, so far obscuring his real nature, are removed, nirDhootha kalmasha. Then the karmayogi sheds sense of agency and desire for result and acts with the spirit of yajna. Armed with the knowledge that everything is Brahman, his intellect thinks of nothing but Brahman, thathbuddhi, and wit all his thoughts centered in Brahman, thannishTaa, he dwells in Brahman, thadhaathmaa. Then the only goal to him is the attainment of Brahman, thath parayaaNa, the state from which there is no reverting back to the cycle of birth and death.

 

On attaining the state of self realization from which there is no return, what will be the nature of perception of such a jannai? This is explaind in the subsequent slokas.