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karma-jaḿ buddhi-yuktā hi phalaḿ tyaktvā manīṣiṇaḥ janma-bandha-vinirmuktāḥ padaḿ gacchanty anāmayam Translation of Bhagavad Gita 2.51 By thus engaging in devotional service to the Lord, great sages or devotees free...

yadā te moha-kalilaḿ buddhir vyatitariṣyati tadā gantāsi nirvedaḿ śrotavyasya śrutasya ca Translation of Bhagavad Gita 2.52 When your intelligence has passed out of the dense forest of delusion, you shall become indifferent...

shruti-vipratipanna te yada sthasyati niscala samadhav acala buddhis tada yogam avapsyasi Translation of Bhagavad Gita 2.53 When your mind is no longer disturbed by the flowery language of the Vedas, and when it remains fixed in...

arjuna uvaca sthita-prajñasya ka bhas?a samadhi-sthasya kesava sthita-dhih? kim´ prabhas?eta kim asita vrajeta kim Translation of Bhagavad Gita 2.54 Arjuna said: O Krishna, what are the symptoms of one whose consciousness is...

śrī-bhagavān uvāca prajahāti yadā kāmān sarvān pārtha mano-gatān ātmany evātmanā tuṣṭaḥ sthita-prajñas tadocyate Translation of Bhagavad Gita 2.55 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O Partha, when a man gives up all...

duḥkheṣv anudvigna-manāḥ sukheṣu vigata-spṛhaḥ vīta-rāga-bhaya-krodhaḥ sthita-dhīr munir ucyate Translation of Bhagavad Gita 2.56 One who is not disturbed in mind even amidst the threefold miseries or elated when there is...

  yaḥ sarvatrānabhisnehas tat tat prāpya śubhāśubham nābhinandati na dveṣṭi tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā Translation of Bhagavad Gita 2.57 In the material world, one who is unaffected by whatever good or evil he may obtain,...

yadā saḿharate cāyaḿ kūrmo ‘ńgānīva sarvaśaḥ indriyāṇīndriyārthebhyas tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā Translation of Bhagavad Gita 2.58 One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws its...

viṣayā vinivartante nirāhārasya dehinaḥ rasa-varjaḿ raso ‘py asya paraḿ dṛṣṭvā nivartate Translation of Bhagavad Gita 2.59 The embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, though the taste for sense objects...

yatato hy api kaunteya puruṣasya vipaścitaḥ indriyāṇi pramāthīni haranti prasabhaḿ manaḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 2.60 The senses are so strong and impetuous, O Arjuna, that they forcibly carry away the mind even of a...