# Bhagavad Gita 2.54

**Canonical reference:** `gita.2.54`  
**Speaker:** Arjuna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अर्जुन उवाच।
स्थितप्रज्ञस्य का भाषा समाधिस्थस्य केशव।
स्थितधीः किं प्रभाषेत किमासीत व्रजेत किम् ॥

## IAST

arjuna uvāca
sthitaprajñasya kā bhāṣā samādhisthasya keśava
sthitadhīḥ kiṃ prabhāṣeta kimāsīta vrajeta kim

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

then will you acquire devotion. What are the characteristics, O Kesava! of one whose mind is steady, and who is intent on contemplation? How should one of steady mind speak, how sit, how move?

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