English Translation of Chapter 8 without Verses 
।8.1।   Arjuna said, O best among men, What is that Brahman? What is Adhyatma? What is action? What is Adhibhuta? What is Adhidaiva?

।8.2।   O Krishna, Who is Adhiyajna and how is he here in this body? And how you become known to the self-controlled, at the time of death?

।8.3।   The blessed Lord said, Brahman is the Supreme and Imperishable; Its Self-knowledge is called Adhyatma; the activity which causes manifestation and sustainenance of beings is called action.

।8.4।   O best among the embodied, Arjuna! My perishable Nature is Adhibhuta and the Purusha or the Soul is the Adhidaiva; I am the Adhiyajna here in this body.

।8.5।   And at the time of death, anyone who departs while thinking of Me alone, he attains My state. There is no doubt about this.

।8.6।   O Arjuna, In whatever state of mind and sphere of thoughts a human leaves the body, he becomes the embodiement of that feeling in the next birth.

।8.7।   Therefore at all times remember Me and fight. With mind and intellect absorbed in Me, you will surely come to Me alone.

।8.8।   O Arjuna, With the mind made steadfast by steady practice and not moving towards any other thing,and constantly meditating upon the Supreme Person, that human being goes to Him .

।8.9।   Whosoever meditates on the Omniscient, the Ancient, the Ruler, subtler than the subtle, the supporter and upholder of all, of inconceivable form, effulgent like the sun and beyond the darkness of ignorance.

।8.10।   At the time of death, with unshaken mind, filled with devotion, by the power of Yoga, fixing the whole life-breath in the middle of the two eyebrows, he reaches that Supreme Divine Person.

।8.11।   I will tell you briefly about the Supreme Goal, which is declared imperishable by the knowers of Vedas, in which the passion-free and practising Yogis enter into, and aspiring for which people practice celibacy.

।8.12।   Closing the gates of the body, drawing the forces of his mind into the heart and by the power of meditation concentrating his vital energy in the brain;engaged in the practice of concentration

।8.13।   He who departs by leaving the body while uttering the single syllable, Om, which is Brahman, and thinking of Me, he attains the supreme Goal.

।8.14।   O Arjuna, To him who thinks constantly of Me, and of nothing else, to such an ever-faithful devotee, I am easily accessible.

।8.15।   Having attained Me these great souls who have reached highest perfection, do not again take birth (here) which is the abode of sorrows and which is impermanent.

।8.16।   O Arjuna- You need to return back from all the worlds including the world of Brahma. But, O Arjuna, There is no re-birth after attaining me.

।8.17।   Those people who know the day of Brahma which is of a duration of a thousand Yugas (ages) and the night which is also of a thousand Yugas duration, they know day and night.

।8.18।   With the coming of day (of Brahma) all manifested things emerge from the Unmanifest and when night comes they merge in that itself which is called the Unmanifested.

।8.19।   O Arjuna - All the beings in the creature, born again and again, comes forth at the coming of the day, and is dissolved at the coming of the night.

।8.20।   But beyond that Unmanifest there is eternal Unmanifest being which is not destroyed even when all beings perish.

।8.21।   He has been called as Unmanifested, Imperishable and Supreme Goal. After achieving that nobody comes back, That is my Supreme Adobe.

।8.22।   O Arjuna, All beings dwell in Him, and He pervades all creations, that Supreme Lord is attainable with unswerving devotion.

।8.23।   O Arjuna - I will narrate you about the timings, based on which the departing Yogis either return back to the world or not.

।8.24।   Those who know Brahman and depart in the time of fire and light in the form of daytime, the bright fortnight, the six months of the northern path of the sun (the northern solstice) go to Brahman

।8.25।   Those yogis who depart in the time of adjoining period of day-night, night, dark fortnight and the six months of the Southern solstice- having reached the lunar light, return to the world.

।8.26।   The bright and the dark paths of the world are verily thought to be eternal; by the one a man goes not to return and by the other he returns.

।8.27।   Knowing these paths, O Arjuna, no Yogi is deluded; therefore at all times be steadfast in Yoga.

।8.28|   Having known this, the yogi transcends all those results of rigtheous deeds that are declared with regard to the Vedas, sacrifices, austerities and also charities, and he reaches the primordial supreme State.