yānti

सदृशं चेष्टते स्वस्याः प्रकृतेर्ज्ञानवानपि

yānti — follow

Even one who knows acts according to their own nature. All beings follow their nature. What can suppression do?

यज्ञशिष्टामृतभुजो यान्ति ब्रह्म सनातनम्

yānti — go

Those who eat what remains of the offering go to the eternal. But for one who makes no offering there is no place, either here or beyond.

अन्तवत्तु फलं तेषां तद्भवत्यल्पमेधसाम्

yānti — go

But the fruit they gain has an end, for their understanding is small. Worshippers of the gods go to the gods; those devoted to me come to me.

इच्छाद्वेषसमुत्थेन द्वन्द्वमोहेन भारत

yānti — enter

By the confusion of opposites, arising from wanting and not wanting, all beings are bewildered at birth.

यत्र काले त्वनावृत्तिमावृत्तिं चैव योगिनः

yānti — attain

Now I will tell you the time at which those who practise depart and do not return, and the time at which they return.

सर्वभूतानि कौन्तेय प्रकृतिं यान्ति मामिकाम्

yānti — merge

At the end of an age all beings merge into my nature, son of Kunti; and at the beginning of the next I send them forth again.

यान्ति देवव्रता देवान् पितृ़न्यान्ति पितृव्रताः

yānti — go

Those devoted to the gods go to the gods; to the ancestors, to the ancestors; to the spirits, to the spirits. Those who make their offering to me come to me.

मां हि पार्थ व्यपाश्रित्य येऽपि स्युः पापयोनयः

yānti — go

For all who take refuge in me, son of Pritha — however low their birth, women, merchants, labourers — reach the highest goal.

क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोरेवमन्तरं ज्ञानचक्षुषा

yānti — approach

Those who see with the eye of knowledge the difference between the field and its knower, and the freeing of beings from nature, reach the highest.

असुरीं योनिमापन्ना मूढा जन्मनि जन्मनि

yānti — go

Falling into such wombs, the deluded do not reach me, birth after birth, Arjuna, and go down to the lowest state.