Arjuna asks
BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ · 8.2“And how are You to be known… at the time of death?”
Praśna No. 10
Kṛṣṇa answers
BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ · 8.5“…while thinking of Me alone, attains My state… there is no doubt about this.”
What you remember is where you go.
Arjuna asks how one can know the Divine at the very end. Kṛṣṇa says what fills the mind at that moment shapes what comes next, and that whoever remembers him then comes to him. There is no doubt, he adds.
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The verses
Arjuna asks
BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ · 8.2अधियज्ञः कथं कोऽत्र देहेऽस्मिन्मधुसूदन।
प्रयाणकाले च कथं ज्ञेयोऽसि नियतात्मभिः।।
adhiyajñaḥ kathaṁ ko ’tra dehe ’smin madhusūdana prayāṇa-kāle ca kathaṁ jñeyo ’si niyatātmabhiḥ
O Madhusudana, how is the entity existing in the sacrifice here in this body, and who is it? And how are You to be known by people of concentrated minds at the time of death?
Kṛṣṇa answers
BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ · 8.5अन्तकाले च मामेव स्मरन्मुक्त्वा कलेवरम्।
यः प्रयाति स मद्भावं याति नास्त्यत्र संशयः।।
anta-kāle ca mām eva smaran muktvā kalevaram yaḥ prayāti sa mad-bhāvaṁ yāti nāstyatra sanśayaḥ
And at the time of death, anyone who departs, giving up the body while thinking of Me alone, attains My state; there is no doubt about this.
The count
8.2 is verse 312 of 700, and verse 2 of 28 in chapter 8.
Arjuna asks at 8.2 and Kṛṣṇa answers at 8.5, 3 verses apart.
Antakāla (the time of the end), in any form, appears in 2 verses of the 700: 2.72 and 8.5.
Counted by Vāṇi on the 700-verse text at getvani.app/gita.
Going deeper
Chapter 8 starts with a run of questions from Arjuna. In 8.1 he asks what Brahman is, what the self is, what action is, and about the physical and the divine levels. 8.2 adds the one this story is about: how are you to be known at the time of death by people of steady mind? Kṛṣṇa answers the earlier questions first, in 8.3 and 8.4, and then turns to death in 8.5: anyone who leaves the body at the end thinking of him alone reaches his state, and there is no doubt about that. 8.6 states the rule behind it: whatever one remembers at the end, one reaches that very thing, having been absorbed in it all along. So the verse is about a lifetime of attention as much as about one last moment. See chapter 8 and what the Gītā says about death.