Purusottama

Tatah padam tat parimargitavyam yasmin gata na nivartanti bhuyah, tam eva cadyam purusham prapadye yatah pravrttih prasrta purani

One must seek that supreme abode from which, having gone, one never returns. There one should surrender to that Primal Person from whom everything has emanated since time immemorial. This verse describes the goal of spiritual practice — the ultimate liberation from the cycle of birth and death by taking refuge in the Supreme.

Uttamah purushas tv anyah paramatmety udahrtah, yo loka-trayam avishya bibharty avyaya ishvarah

Yet there is another, the Supreme Person — the Paramatma — who is called the indestructible Lord and who pervades the three worlds and maintains them. Beyond both the perishable and the imperishable stands the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who sustains all three worlds as the transcendent source of all existence.

Iti guhyatamam shastram idam uktam mayanagha, etad buddhva buddhiman syat krta-krtyash ca bharata

This is the most confidential teaching in all of scripture, O sinless one. Understanding it, a person becomes wise and has accomplished everything worth accomplishing, O Bharata. Krishna closes this chapter by declaring this knowledge of Purushottama the most secret of all scriptural truths — and asserts that true comprehension of it fulfills all purposes of human existence.