एषा ब्राह्मी स्थितिः पार्थ नैनां प्राप्य विमुह्यति।स्थित्वाऽस्यामन्तकालेऽपि ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृच्छति॥
eṣā brāhmī sthitiḥ pārtha naināṃ prāpya vimuhyatisthitvāsyām anta-kāle ’pi brahma-nirvāṇam ṛcchati
Word by word
The verse says
This is what it is to stand in the infinite, Arjuna. Reach it and you are not confused again. Stand here even at the last hour, and you come to rest in the infinite.
In plain words
The chapter ends with a promise, and it includes people who leave it very late.
Reach this and confusion does not come back. And then the line that opens the door wide: even at the hour of death.
Not only for those who spent a lifetime at it.
Where you've felt this · in grief
Someone changes late — properly, not cosmetically — in their last years. Everyone who knows them can see it is real. Nobody says it came too late to count.
Going deeper
Brāhmī sthitiḥ — the state of standing in Brahman, the infinite. It is the first time the chapter names its destination, and it does so in the last verse.
The structure of the whole chapter is worth seeing now that it is complete. It opens with a man on the floor of a chariot unable to move, and closes with a description of someone who cannot be confused. Between those two points Krishna has offered the deathless self, duty, reputation, heaven, the settled mind, evenness in success and failure, sense control, and finally himself.
Anta-kāle 'pi — even at the end time. This phrase has carried enormous weight in the tradition, and it is the reason the Gita is recited at deathbeds. It states that the door does not close, and that late arrival is not disqualifying.
And the chapter answers Arjuna's question from 2.54 without ever quite answering it. He asked how such a person sits and walks. Krishna has given eighteen verses of description and not one of them is about posture. The answer, in the end, is that you would not identify them by anything they do.
Chapter 3 opens with Arjuna, entirely reasonably, complaining that he has been given two different answers.