Sanskrit · Devanagari
श्रीभगवानुवाच। प्रजहाति यदा कामान्सर्वान्पार्थ मनोगतान्। आत्मन्येवात्मना तुष्टः स्थितप्रज्ञस्तदोच्यते ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
śrībhagavānuvāca prajahāti yadā kāmānsarvānpārtha manogatān ātmanyevātmanā tuṣṭaḥ sthitaprajñastadocyate
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882When a man O son of Pṛthā! abandons all the desires of his heart and is pleased in his self only and by his self he is then called one of steady mind.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।2.55।। प्रजहाति प्रकर्षेण जहाति परित्यजति यदा यस्मिन्काले सर्वान् समस्तान् कामान् इच्छाभेदान् हे पार्थ मनोगतान् मनसि प्रविष्टान् हृदि प्रविष्टान्। सर्वकामपरित्यागे तुष्टिकारणाभावात् शरीरधारणनिमित्तशेषे च सति उन्मत्तप्रमत्तस्येव प्रवृत्तिः प्राप्ता इत्यत उच्यते आत्मन्येव प्रत्यगात्मस्वरूपे एव आत्मना स्वेनैव बाह्यलाभनिरपेक्षः तुष्टः परमार्थदर्शनामृतरसलाभेन अन्यस्मादलंप्रत्ययवान् स्थितप्रज्ञः स्थिता प्रतिष्ठिता आत्मानात्मविवेकजा प्रज्ञा यस्य सः स्थितप्रज्ञः विद्वान् तदा उच्यते। त्यक्तपुत्रवित्तलोकैषणः संन्यासी आत्माराम आत्मक्रीडः स्थितप्रज्ञ इत्यर्थः।।किञ्च
6cf7ed4ccb60…Rāmānuja
2.55 The Lord said When a person is satisfied in himself with himself, i.e. when his mind depends on the self within himself; and being content with that, expels all the desires of the mind which are different from that state of mind - then he is said to be a man of firm wisdom. This is the highest form of devotion of knowledge. Then, the lower state, not far below it, of one established in firm wisdom, is described:
4d98a49702f0…Swami Sivananda
2.55 प्रजहाति casts off? यदा when? कामान् desires? सर्वान् all? पार्थ O Partha? मनोगतान् of the mind? आत्मनि in the Self? एव only? आत्मना by the Self? तुष्टः satisfied? स्थितप्रज्ञः of steady wisdom? तदा then? उच्यते (he) is called.Commentary In this verse Lord Krishna gives His answer to the first part of Arjunas estion.If anyone gets sugarcandy will he crave for blacksugar Certainly not. If anyone can attain the supreme bliss of the Self? will he thirst for the sensual pleasures No? not at all. The sumtotal of all the pleasures of the world will seem worthless for the sage of steady wisdom who is satisfied in the Self. (Cf.III.17VI.7?8).
bdfb3c666c78…These supplied texts come from the pinned VedicScriptures dataset under GPL-3.0 and await independent alignment review.