Bhagavad Gita 13.8-12

Sanskrit

अमानित्वमदम्भित्वमहिंसा क्षान्तिरार्जवम् । आचार्योपासनं शौचं स्थैर्यमात्मविनिग्रहः ॥13.8॥इन्द्रियार्थेषु वैराग्यमनहङ्कार एव च । जन्ममृत्युजराव्याधिदुःखदोषानुदर्शनम् ॥13.9॥असक्तिरनभिष्वङ्गः पुत्रदारगृहादिषु । नित्यं च समचित्तत्वमिष्टानिष्टोपपत्तिषु ॥13.10॥मयि चानन्ययोगेन भक्तिरव्यभिचारिणी । विविक्तदेशसेवित्वमरतिर्जनसंसदि ॥13.11॥अध्यात्मज्ञाननित्यत्वं तत्त्वज्ञानार्थदर्शनम् । एतज्ज्ञानमिति प्रोक्तमज्ञानं यदतोऽन्यथा ॥13.12॥

Transliteration

amānitvamadambhitvamahiṃsā kṣāntirārjavam | ācāryopāsanaṃ śaucaṃ sthairyamātmavinigrahaḥ ‖13.8‖ indriyārtheṣu vairāgyamanahaṅkāra eva ca | janmamṛtyujarāvyādhiduḥkhadoṣānudarśanam ‖13.9‖ asaktiranabhiṣvaṅgaḥ putradāragṛhādiṣu | nityaṃ ca samacittatvamiṣṭāniṣṭopapattiṣu ‖13.10‖ mayi cānanyayogena bhaktiravyabhicāriṇī | viviktadeśasevitvamaratirjanasaṃsadi ‖13.11‖ adhyātmajñānanityatvaṃ tattvajñānārthadarśanam | etajjñānamiti proktamajñānaṃ yadato'nyathā ‖13.12‖

Meaning

“Humility, unpretentiousness, non-violence, forbearance, uprightness, service of the teacher, purity, steadfastness, self- control; dispassion toward sense-objects, absence of egoism, perception of the evil of birth, death, old age, disease, and pain; non-attachment, non-clinging to son, wife, and home, constant even-mindedness amid the desired and undesired; unswerving devotion to Me with undivided yoga, resort to solitary places, distaste for crowds of people; constancy in knowledge of the Self, insight into the goal of true knowledge, this is declared to be knowledge; what is contrary to it is ignorance.”

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