अन्तकाले च मामेव स्मरन्मुक्त्वा कलेवरम् ।
यः प्रयाति स मद्भावं याति नास्त्यत्र संशयः ।। ८.५ ।।

anta-kāle ca mām-eva smaran-muktvā kalevaram |
yaḥ prayāti sa mad-bhāvaṁ yāti nāsty-atra saṁśayaḥ || 8.5 ||

Krishna answers the fourth question in a more elaborate manner:

Remembering Me alone in the end, whoever departs from this world shedding his body, no doubt, attains my state.

What is the best way of departing from the world? What should one do to achieve this? Does the outcome follow any personal or particular process, or is there some general law that governs the finale of human life on earth?

Krishna says that the last-minute memory and contemplation are important in this matter. The best and simplest course is to remember the Teacher and his words exclusively, as part of the seeker’s life, placing full reliance on them. That will then lead the seeker to the state similar to that of the Teacher. It is doubtless, it is definite, assures Krishna.

Is the message contained in this statement, something solely personal and specific for Arjuna alone? Krishna himself would depart from the world as he did some years later. Departure, being thus common to Arjuna and Krishna, and to all humans, how and where is the question of Arjuna attaining to Krishna’s state? What is the state, if at all, referred to here? For the rational mind, it calls for thorough examination.