According to Krishna’s teaching, moksha is release from bondage to samsara, the ceaseless cycle of birth and death, and the end of inner slavery to desire, fear, anger, and ego. It is described as abiding in one’s true Self, which is unborn and unchanging, distinct from the body and mind, and no longer identified with the limited personality. This liberated state is characterized by serenity, freedom from dualities such as pleasure and pain or success and failure, and the cessation of sorrow and delusion. Moksha is also portrayed as union with the supreme reality—Brahman or Krishna—where one becomes “Brahman-like,” rejoicing in the Self alone and dwelling in God while God dwells in the devotee. In this state, having reached Krishna, there is no return to mortal existence or rebirth, only enduring peace and bliss.

The Gita presents several interrelated paths to this liberation, all of which require purification of the mind and a transformation of one’s orientation to action and knowledge. Through karma-yoga, one performs one’s proper duty without attachment to results, offering all actions to the Divine and remaining even-minded in success and failure; such selfless action weakens ego and desire and can itself become a means to liberation when done in a spirit of surrender. Jñāna-yoga deepens this by cultivating discriminative insight into the difference between the eternal Self and the changing body–mind, recognizing Krishna as the supreme source and end of all, and seeing the same Self in all beings; when ignorance is destroyed in this way, karma loses its binding force. Dhyāna-yoga, or disciplined meditation, steadies the mind and senses, leading to direct experience of the Self and a peace that transcends suffering and fear.

Among these, Krishna gives special prominence to bhakti-yoga, the path of loving devotion. Liberation arises when one takes exclusive refuge in Krishna, constantly remembers Him with faith and love, and offers all actions, enjoyments, and austerities as worship. Such devotion, accompanied by qualities like compassion, humility, non-harming, and equanimity, draws divine grace and burns past karma, culminating in eternal union with the Lord beyond rebirth. The Gita thus harmonizes action, knowledge, meditation, and devotion, but gathers them into a single movement: performing one’s duty as worship, relinquishing egoic doership, and surrendering wholly to Krishna. In that surrender, the seeker becomes established in Brahman, free from delusion and sorrow, and attains the moksha that is both realization of the Self and loving communion with the supreme.