Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 8: The Imperishable Absolute

Bhagavad Gita 8.15

māmupetya punarjanma duḥkhālayamaśāśvatam | nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ saṃsiddhiṃ paramāṃ gatāḥ ||

Having come to me, the great souls who have reached the highest perfection are not born again into this impermanent home of sorrow.

Modern context

The world of repeated birth is described in two words: a home of sorrow, and impermanent. This is not a gloomy view of life so much as an honest one. Everything we love here changes and ends. Even the happiest life includes loss. The verse does not ask anyone to hate the world, only to see it clearly, and to know that there is something beyond it which does not pass away.