BG 5.17

तद्बुद्धयस्तदात्मानस्तन्निष्ठास्तत्परायणाः ।
गच्छन्त्यपुनरावृत्तिं ज्ञाननिर्धूतकल्मषाः ॥
tad-buddhayas tad-ātmānas tan-niṣṭhās tat-parāyaṇāḥ
gacchanty apunar-āvṛttiṁ jñāna-nirdhūta-kalmaṣāḥ

Word-for-word meanings

tat-buddhayaḥ — those whose intelligence is firmly fixed on Him;  tat-ātmānaḥ — whose minds are absorbed in meditation on Him;  tat-niṣṭhāḥ — who have firm faith in Him;  tat-parāyaṇāḥ — who are intently devoted to Him;  kalmaṣāḥ — [and] whose sins;  nirdhūta — have been expunged;  jñāna — by immediate awareness [of God];  gacchanti — attain;  apunaḥ-āvṛttim — the state of no return.

Translation

Those whose intelligence is firmly fixed on Him [God], whose minds are absorbed in meditation on Him, who have firm faith in Him, who are intently devoted to Him, and whose sins have been expunged by immediate awareness [of God], attain the state of no return.

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