siddhim prapto yatha brahma
tathapnoti nibodha me। samasenaiva kaunteya nistha jnanasya ya para॥ 18.50 ॥ |
Sri Krishna said: O Arjuna, learn from Me how one who has achieved this perfection can attain to the supreme perfection stage, Brahman, the stage of highest knowledge, by acting in the way I shall now summarize.
buddhya vishuddhaya yukto
dhrtyatmanam niyamya cha। shabdadin visayams tyaktva raga-dvesau vyudasya cha॥ 18.51 ॥ vivikta-sevi laghv-asi yata-vak-kaya-manasah:। dhyana-yoga-paro nityam vairagyam samupasritah:॥ 18.52 ॥ ahankaram balam darpam kamam krodham parigraham। vimucya nirmamah santo brahma-bhuyaya kalpate॥ 18.53 ॥ |
O Arjuna, 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.