BG 18.51-53
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXTS 51-53
- बुद्ध्या विशुद्धया युक्तो धृत्यात्मानं नियम्य च ।
- शब्दादीन्विषयांस्त्यक्त्वा रागद्वेषौ व्युदस्य च ॥५१॥
- विविक्तसेवी लघ्वाशी यतवाक्कायमानसः ।
- ध्यानयोगपरो नित्यं वैराग्यं समुपाश्रितः ॥५२॥
- अहंकारं बलं दर्पं कामं क्रोधं परिग्रहम् ।
- विमुच्य निर्ममः शान्तो ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते ॥५३॥
- buddhyā viśuddhayā yukto
- dhṛtyātmānaṁ niyamya ca
- śabdādīn viṣayāṁs tyaktvā
- rāga-dveṣau vyudasya ca
- vivikta-sevī laghv-āśī
- yata-vāk-kāya-mānasaḥ
- dhyāna-yoga-paro nityaṁ
- vairāgyaṁ samupāśritaḥ
- ahaṅkāraṁ balaṁ darpaṁ
- kāmaṁ krodhaṁ parigraham
- vimucya nirmamaḥ śānto
- brahma-bhūyāya kalpate
SYNONYMS
buddhyā — with the intelligence; viśuddhayā — fully purified; yuktaḥ — engaged; dhṛtyā — by determination; ātmānam — the self; niyamya — regulating; ca — also; śabda-ādīn — such as sound; viṣayān — the sense objects; tyaktvā — giving up; rāga — attachment; dveṣau — and hatred; vyudasya — laying aside; ca — also; vivikta-sevī — living in a secluded place; laghu-āśī — eating a small quantity; yata — having controlled; vāk — speech; kāya — body; mānasaḥ — and mind; dhyāna-yoga-paraḥ — absorbed in trance; nityam — twenty-four hours a day; vairāgyam — detachment; samupāśritaḥ — having taken shelter of; ahaṅkāram — false ego; balam — false strength; darpam — false pride; kāmam — lust; krodham — anger; parigraham — and acceptance of material things; vimucya — being delivered from; nirmamaḥ — without a sense of proprietorship; śāntaḥ — peaceful; brahma-bhūyāya — for self-realization; kalpate — is qualified.
TRANSLATION
Being purified by his intelligence and controlling the mind with determination, giving up the objects of sense gratification, being freed from attachment and hatred, one who lives in a secluded place, who eats little, who controls his body, mind and power of speech, who is always in trance and who is detached, free from false ego, false strength, false pride, lust, anger, and acceptance of material things, free from false proprietorship, and peaceful—such a person is certainly elevated to the position of self-realization.
PURPORT
When one is purified by intelligence, he keeps himself in the mode of goodness. Thus one becomes the controller of the mind and is always in trance. He is not attached to the objects of sense gratification, and he is free from attachment and hatred in his activities. Such a detached person naturally prefers to live in a secluded place, he does not eat more than what he requires, and he controls the activities of his body and mind. He has no false ego because he does not accept the body as himself. Nor has he a desire to make the body fat and strong by accepting so many material things. Because he has no bodily concept of life, he is not falsely proud. He is satisfied with everything that is offered to him by the grace of the Lord, and he is never angry in the absence of sense gratification. Nor does he endeavor to acquire sense objects. Thus when he is completely free from false ego, he becomes nonattached to all material things, and that is the stage of self-realization of Brahman. That stage is called the brahma-bhūta stage (SB 4.30.20). When one is free from the material conception of life, he becomes peaceful and cannot be agitated. This is described in Bhagavad-gītā (BG 2.70):
- āpūryamāṇam acala-pratiṣṭhaṁ
- samudram āpaḥ praviśanti yadvat
- tadvat kāmā yaṁ praviśanti sarve
- sa śāntim āpnoti na kāma-kāmī
"A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires—that enter like rivers into the ocean, which is ever being filled but is always still—can alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to satisfy such desires."