The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
Translations of other slokas of the Gita are available on my blog http://haricharanam.blogspot.
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 72
Esha brahmi sthitih partha nainam prapya vumhyati I
Sthitva asyam antakale api brahma nirvanam rucchati II sloka 72
एषा ब्राह्मी स्थितिः पार्थ न एनां प्राप्य विमुह्यति ।
स्थित्वा अस्यां अन्तकाले अपि ब्रह्म निर्वाणं ऋच्छति ।। श्लोक ७२
This is the Brahmi state, O Arjuna. None attaining to this is deluded. By adbiding in this state even at the hour of death, one wins the self
This state of performing disinterested work which is preceded by knowledge of the eternal self and which is characterised by firm wisdom, is the Brahmi state, which secures the attainment of the Brahman After attaining such a state he will not be deluded ie., he will not get a mortal coil again. Reaching this state even during the last years of his life, he wins blissful brahman which is full of beautitude. He attains the self which is constituted of nothing but bliss.
Thus in the 2nd chapter, the Lord wanted to remove the delusion of Arjuna, who did not know the real nature of the self and also did not realise that the activity name "war" , here an ordained duty, is a means for attaining the nature of Sankhya or the self. Arjuna was under the delusion that the body is itself the self, and dominated by that delusion,had retreated from battle. He was therefore taught the knowledge of sankhya - the knowledge of self and yoga - the path of practical work without attachment. These together have as their objective the attainment of steady wisdom (stithaprajnata)
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