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nādatte kasyacit pāpaḿ na caiva sukṛtaḿ vibhuḥ ajñānenāvṛtaḿ jñānaḿ tena muhyanti jantavaḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 5.15 Nor does the Supreme Lord assume anyone’s sinful or pious activities. Embodied beings, however,...

jñānena tu tad ajñānaḿ yeṣāḿ nāśitam ātmanaḥ teṣām āditya-vaj jñānaḿ prakāśayati tat param Translation of Bhagavad Gita 5.16 When, however, one is enlightened with the knowledge by which nescience is destroyed, then his...

tad-buddhayas tad-ātmānas tan-niṣṭhās tat-parāyaṇāḥ gacchanty apunar-āvṛttiḿ jñāna-nirdhūta-kalmaṣāḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 5.17 When one’s intelligence, mind, faith and refuge are all fixed in the Supreme, then...

vidyā-vinaya-sampanne brāhmaṇe gavi hastini śuni caiva śva-pāke ca paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 5.18 The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge, see with equal vision a learned and gentle brahmana,...

ihaiva tair jitaḥ sargo yeṣāḿ sāmye sthitaḿ manaḥ nirdoṣaḿ hi samaḿ brahma tasmād brahmaṇi te sthitāḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 5.19 Those whose minds are established in sameness and equanimity have already...

na prahṛṣyet priyaḿ prāpya nodvijet prāpya cāpriyam sthira-buddhir asammūḍho brahma-vid brahmaṇi sthitaḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 5.20 A person who neither rejoices upon achieving something pleasant nor laments upon...

bāhya-sparśeṣv asaktātmā vindaty ātmani yat sukham sa brahma-yoga-yuktātmā sukham akṣayam aśnute Translation of Bhagavad Gita 5.21 Such a liberated person is not attracted to material sense pleasure but is always in trance,...

ye hi saḿsparśa-jā bhogā duḥkha-yonaya eva te ādy-antavantaḥ kaunteya na teṣu ramate budhaḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 5.22 An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with...

śaknotīhaiva yaḥ soḍhuḿ prāk śarīra-vimokṣaṇāt kāma-krodhodbhavaḿ vegaḿ sa yuktaḥ sa sukhī naraḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 5.23 Before giving up this present body, if one is able to tolerate the urges of the material...

yo ’ntaḥ-sukho ’ntar-ārāmas tathāntar-jyotir eva yaḥ sa yogī brahma-nirvāṇaḿ brahma-bhūto ’dhigacchati Translation of Bhagavad Gita 5.24 One whose happiness is within, who is active and rejoices within, and whose aim is...