Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]What has been called Unmanifested and Imperishable, has been described as the Goal Supreme. That is My highest state, having attained which, there is no return.
BG 8.21
अव्यक्तोऽक्षर इत्युक्तस्तमाहुः परमां गतिम् | यं प्राप्य न निवर्तन्ते तद्धाम परमं मम ||२१||
avyakto'kṣara ity uktas tam āhuḥ paramāṃ gatim | yaṃ prāpya na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṃ mama || 21 ||
"The unmanifest is called the Imperishable — the Supreme Goal from which none returns. That is My highest abode."
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Annie Besant & Bhagavan Das, The Bhagavad Gītā (1905)
[5]That unmanifested is called the Indestructible; that, they say, is the highest path; those who reach It return not. That is My supreme abode.
William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)
[6]But there is that which upon the dissolution of all things else is not destroyed; it is indivisible, indestructible, and of another nature from the visible. That called the unmanifested and exhaustless is called the supreme goal, which having once attained they never more return — it is my supreme abode.
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]The place which they who read the Vedas name AKSHARAM, 'Ultimate;' whereto have striven Saints and ascetics--their road is the same. Thither arriving none return.
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]It is called the unperceived, the indestructible; they call it the highest goal. Attaining to it, none returns. That is my supreme abode.