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Ill doth it become thee. Cast off this mean faint-heartedness and arise, O scorcher of thine enemies! > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.4) arjuna uvāca kathaṃ bhīṣmam ahaṃ saṃkhye droṇaṃ ca madhusūdana iṣubhiḥ pratiyotsyāmi pūjārhāv arisūdana > Arjuna said: > —But how can I, in battle, O slayer of Madhu, fight with arrows against Bhishma and Drona, who are rather worthy to be worshipped, O destroyer of foes! > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.5) gurūn ahatvā hi mahānubhāvāñ; śreyo bhoktuṃ bhaikṣam apīha loke hatvārthakāmāṃs tu gurūn ihaiva; bhuñjīya bhogān rudhirapradigdhān > Surely it would be better even to eat the bread of beggary in this life than to slay these great-souled masters. But if I kill them, even in this world, all my enjoyment of wealth and desires will be stained with blood. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.6) na caitad vidmaḥ kataran no garīyo; yad vā jayema yadi vā no jayeyuḥ yān eva hatvā na jijīviṣāmas; te 'vasthitāḥ pramukhe dhārtarāṣṭrāḥ > And indeed I can scarcely tell which will be better, that we should conquer them, or that they should conquer us. The very sons of Dhritarâshtra,—after slaying whom we should not care to live,—stand facing us. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.7) kārpaṇyadoṣopahatasvabhāvaḥ; pṛcchāmi tvāṃ dharmasaṃmūḍhacetāḥ yac chreyaḥ syān niścitaṃ brūhi tan me; śiṣyas te 'haṃ śādhi māṃ tvāṃ prapannam > With my nature overpowered by weak commiseration, with a mind in confusion about duty, I supplicate Thee. Say decidedly what is good for me. I am Thy disciple. Instruct me who have taken refuge in Thee. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.8) na hi prapaśyāmi mamāpanudyād; yac chokam ucchoṣaṇam indriyāṇām avāpya bhūmāv asapatnam ṛddhaṃ; rājyaṃ surāṇām api cādhipatyam > I do not see anything to remove this sorrow which blasts my senses, even were I to obtain unrivalled and flourishing dominion over the earth, and mastery over the gods. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.9) saṃjaya uvāca evam uktvā hṛṣīkeśaṃ guḍākeśaḥ paraṃtapa na yotsya iti govindam uktvā tūṣṇīṃ babhūva ha > Sanjaya said: > Having spoken thus to the Lord of the senses, Gudâkesha, the scorcher of foes, said to Govinda, "I shall not fight," and became silent. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.10) tam uvāca hṛṣīkeśaḥ prahasann iva bhārata senayor ubhayor madhye viṣīdantam idaṃ vacaḥ > To him who was sorrowing in the midst of the two armies, Hrishikesha, as if smiling, O descendant of Bharata! spoke these words. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.11) śrībhagavān uvāca aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṃ prajñāvādāṃś ca bhāṣase gatāsūn agatāsūṃś ca nānuśocanti paṇḍitāḥ > The Blessed Lord said: > Thou hast been mourning for them who should not be mourned for. Yet thou speakest words of wisdom. The (truly) wise grieve neither for the living nor the dead. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.12) na tv evāhaṃ jātu nāsaṃ na tvaṃ neme janādhipāḥ na caiva na bhaviṣyāmaḥ sarve vayam ataḥ param > It is not that I have never existed, nor thou, nor these kings. Nor is it that we shall cease to exist in the future. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.13) dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāraṃ yauvanaṃ jarā tathā dehāntaraprāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati > As are childhood, youth, and old age, in this body, to the embodied soul, so also is the attaining of another body. Calm souls are not deluded thereat. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.14) mātrāsparśās tu kaunteya śītoṣṇasukhaduḥkhadāḥ āgamāpāyino 'nityās tāṃs titikṣasva bhārata > Notions of heat and cold, of pain and pleasure, are born, O son of Kunti, only of the contact of the senses with their objects. They have a beginning and an end. They are impermanent in their nature. Bear them patiently, O descendant of Bharata. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.15) yaṃ hi na vyathayanty ete puruṣaṃ puruṣarṣabha samaduḥkhasukhaṃ dhīraṃ so 'mṛtatvāya kalpate > That calm man who is the same in pain and pleasure, whom these cannot disturb, alone is able, O great amongst men, to attain to immortality. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.16) nāsato vidyate bhāvo nābhāvo vidyate sataḥ ubhayor api dṛṣṭo 'ntas tv anayos tattvadarśibhiḥ > The unreal never is. The Real never is not. Men possessed of the knowledge of the Truth fully know both these. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.17) avināśi tu tad viddhi yena sarvam idaṃ tatam vināśam avyayasyāsya na kaś cit kartum arhati > That by which all this is pervaded,—That know for certain to be indestructible. None has the power to destroy this Immutable. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.18) antavanta ime dehā nityasyoktāḥ śarīriṇaḥ anāśino 'prameyasya tasmād yudhyasva bhārata > Of this indwelling Self, the ever-changeless, the indestructible, the illimitable,—these bodies are said to have an end. Fight therefore, O descendant of Bharata. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.19) ya enaṃ vetti hantāraṃ yaś cainaṃ manyate hatam ubhau tau na vijānīto nāyaṃ hanti na hanyate > He who takes the Self to be the slayer, he who takes It to be the slain, neither of these knows. It does not slay, nor is It slain. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.20) na jāyate mriyate vā kadā cin; nāyaṃ bhūtvā bhavitā vā na bhūyaḥ ajo nityaḥ śāśvato 'yaṃ purāṇo; na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre > This in never born, nor does It die. It is not that not having been It again comes into being. (Or according to another view: It is not that having been It again ceases to be). This is unborn, eternal, changeless, ever-Itself. It is not killed when the body is killed. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.21) vedāvināśinaṃ nityaṃ ya enam ajam avyayam kathaṃ sa puruṣaḥ pārtha kaṃ ghātayati hanti kam > He that knows This to be indestructible, changeless, without birth, and immutable, how is he, O son of Prithâ, to slay or cause another to slay? > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.22) vāsāṃsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya; navāni gṛhṇāti naro 'parāṇi tathā śarīrāṇi vihāya jīrṇāny; anyāni saṃyāti navāni dehī > Even as a man casts off worn-out clothes, and puts on others which are new, so the embodied casts off worn-out bodies, and enters into others which are new. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.23) nainaṃ chindanti śastrāṇi nainaṃ dahati pāvakaḥ na cainaṃ kledayanty āpo na śoṣayati mārutaḥ > This (Self), weapons cut not; This, fire burns not; This, water wets not; and This, wind dries not. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.24) acchedyo 'yam adāhyo 'yam akledyo 'śoṣya eva ca nityaḥ sarvagataḥ sthāṇur acalo 'yaṃ sanātanaḥ > This Self cannot be cut, nor burnt, nor wetted, nor dried. Changeless, all-pervading, unmoving, immovable, the Self is eternal. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.25) avyakto 'yam acintyo 'yam avikāryo 'yam ucyate tasmād evaṃ viditvainaṃ nānuśocitum arhasi > This (Self) is said to be unmanifested, unthinkable, and unchangeable. Therefore, knowing This to be such, thou oughtest not to mourn. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.26) atha cainaṃ nityajātaṃ nityaṃ vā manyase mṛtam tathāpi tvaṃ mahābāho nainaṃ śocitum arhasi > But if thou shouldst take This to have constant birth and death, even in that case, O mighty-armed, thou oughtest not to mourn for This. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.27) jātasya hi dhruvo mṛtyur dhruvaṃ janma mṛtasya ca tasmād aparihārye 'rthe na tvaṃ śocitum arhasi > Of that which is born, death is certain, of that which is dead, birth is certain. Over the unavoidable, therefore, thou oughtest not to grieve. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.28) avyaktādīni bhūtāni vyaktamadhyāni bhārata avyaktanidhanāny eva tatra kā paridevanā > All beings are unmanifested in their beginning, O Bhârata, manifested in their middle state and unmanifested again in their end. What is there then to grieve about? > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.29) āścaryavat paśyati kaś cid enam; āścaryavad vadati tathaiva cānyaḥ āścaryavac cainam anyaḥ śṛṇoti; śrutvāpy enaṃ veda na caiva kaś cit > Some look upon the Self as marvellous. Others speak of It as wonderful. Others again hear of It as a wonder. And still others, though hearing, do not understand It at all. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.30) dehī nityam avadhyo 'yaṃ dehe sarvasya bhārata tasmāt sarvāṇi bhūtāni na tvaṃ śocitum arhasi > This, the Indweller in the bodies of all, is ever indestructible, O descendant of Bharata. Wherefore thou oughtest not to mourn for any creature. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.31) svadharmam api cāvekṣya na vikampitum arhasi dharmyād dhi yuddhāc chreyo 'nyat kṣatriyasya na vidyate > Looking at thine own Dharma, also, thou oughtest not to waver, for there is nothing higher for a Kshatriya than a righteous war. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.32) yadṛcchayā copapannaṃ svargadvāram apāvṛtam sukhinaḥ kṣatriyāḥ pārtha labhante yuddham īdṛśam > Fortunate certainly are the Kshatriyas, O son of Prithâ, who are called to fight in such a battle, that comes unsought as an open gate to heaven. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.33) atha cet tvam imaṃ dharmyaṃ saṃgrāmaṃ na kariṣyasi tataḥ svadharmaṃ kīrtiṃ ca hitvā pāpam avāpsyasi > But if thou refusest to engage in this righteous warfare, then, forfeiting thine own Dharma and honour, thou shalt incur sin. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.34) akīrtiṃ cāpi bhūtāni kathayiṣyanti te 'vyayām saṃbhāvitasya cākīrtir maraṇād atiricyate > The world also will ever hold thee in reprobation. To the honoured, disrepute is surely worse than death. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.35) bhayād raṇād uparataṃ maṃsyante tvāṃ mahārathāḥ yeṣāṃ ca tvaṃ bahumato bhūtvā yāsyasi lāghavam > The great chariot-warriors will believe that thou hast withdrawn from the battle through fear. And thou wilt be lightly esteemed by them who have thought much of thee. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.36) avācyavādāṃś ca bahūn vadiṣyanti tavāhitāḥ nindantas tava sāmarthyaṃ tato duḥkhataraṃ nu kim > Thine enemies also, cavilling at thy great prowess, will say of thee things that are not to be uttered. What could be more intolerable than this? > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.37) hato vā prāpsyasi svargaṃ jitvā vā bhokṣyase mahīm tasmād uttiṣṭha kaunteya yuddhāya kṛtaniścayaḥ > Dying thou gainest heaven; conquering thou enjoyest the earth. Therefore, O son of Kunti, arise, resolved to fight. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.38) sukhaduḥkhe same kṛtvā lābhālābhau jayājayau tato yuddhāya yujyasva naivaṃ pāpam avāpsyasi > Having made pain and pleasure, gain and loss, conquest and defeat, the same, engage thou then in battle. So shalt thou incur no sin. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.39) eṣā te 'bhihitā sāṃkhye buddhir yoge tv imāṃ śṛṇu buddhyā yukto yayā pārtha karmabandhaṃ prahāsyasi > The wisdom of Self-realisation has been declared unto thee. Hearken thou now to the wisdom of Yoga, endued with which, O son of Prithâ, thou shalt break through the bonds of Karma. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.40) nehābhikramanāśo 'sti pratyavāyo na vidyate svalpam apy asya dharmasya trāyate mahato bhayāt > In this, there is no waste of the unfinished attempt, nor is there production of contrary results. Even very little of this Dharma protects from the great terror. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.41) vyavasāyātmikā buddhir ekeha kurunandana bahuśākhā hy anantāś ca buddhayo 'vyavasāyinām > In this, O scion of Kuru, there is but a single one-pointed determination. The purposes of the undecided are innumerable and many-branching. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.42) yām imāṃ puṣpitāṃ vācaṃ pravadanty avipaścitaḥ vedavādaratāḥ pārtha nānyad astīti vādinaḥ > O Pârtha, no set determination is formed in the minds of those that are deeply attached to pleasure and power, and whose discrimination is stolen away by the flowery words of the unwise, who are full of desires and look upon heaven as their highest goal and who, taking pleasure in the panegyric words of the Vedas, declare that there is nothing else. Their (flowery) words are exuberant with various specific, rites as the means to pleasure and power and are the causes of (new) births as the result of their works (performed with desire). > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.43) kāmātmānaḥ svargaparā janmakarmaphalapradām kriyāviśeṣabahulāṃ bhogaiśvaryagatiṃ prati ### [2.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.44) bhogaiśvaryaprasaktānāṃ tayāpahṛtacetasām vyavasāyātmikā buddhiḥ samādhau na vidhīyate ### [2.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.45) traiguṇyaviṣayā vedā nistraiguṇyo bhavārjuna nirdvaṃdvo nityasattvastho niryogakṣema ātmavān > The Vedas deal with the three Gunas. Be thou free, O Arjuna, from the triad of the Gunas, free from the pairs of opposites, ever-balanced, free from (the thought of) getting and keeping, and established in the Self. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.46) yāvān artha udapāne sarvataḥ saṃplutodake tāvān sarveṣu vedeṣu brāhmaṇasya vijānataḥ > To the Brâhmana who has known the Self, all the Vedas are of so much use as a reservoir is, when there is a flood everywhere. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.47) karmaṇy evādhikāras te mā phaleṣu kadā cana mā karmaphalahetur bhūr mā te saṅgo 'stv akarmaṇi > Thy right is to work only; but never to the fruits thereof. Be thou not the producer of the fruits of (thy) actions; neither let thy attachment be towards inaction. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.48) yogasthaḥ kuru karmāṇi saṅgaṃ tyaktvā dhanaṃjaya siddhyasiddhyoḥ samo bhūtvā samatvaṃ yoga ucyate > Being steadfast in Yoga, Dhananjaya, perform actions, abandoning attachment, remaining unconcerned as regards success and failure. This evenness. of mind (in regard to success and failure) is known as Yoga. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.49) dūreṇa hy avaraṃ karma buddhiyogād dhanaṃjaya buddhau śaraṇam anviccha kṛpaṇāḥ phalahetavaḥ > Work (with desire) is verily far inferior to that performed with the mind undisturbed by thoughts of results. O Dhananjaya, seek refuge in this evenness of mind. Wretched are they who act for results. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.50) buddhiyukto jahātīha ubhe sukṛtaduṣkṛte tasmād yogāya yujyasva yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam > Endued with this evenness of mind, one frees oneself in this life, alike from vice and virtue. Devote thyself, therefore, to this Yoga. Yoga is the very dexterity of work. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.51) karmajaṃ buddhiyuktā hi phalaṃ tyaktvā manīṣiṇaḥ janmabandhavinirmuktāḥ padaṃ gacchanty anāmayam > The wise, possessed of this evenness of mind, abandoning the fruits of their actions, freed for ever from the fetters of birth, go to that state which is beyond all evil. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.52) yadā te mohakalilaṃ buddhir vyatitariṣyati tadā gantāsi nirvedaṃ śrotavyasya śrutasya ca > When thy intellect crosses beyond the taint of illusion, then shalt thou attain to indifference, regarding things heard and things yet to be heard. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.53) śrutivipratipannā te yadā sthāsyati niścalā samādhāv acalā buddhis tadā yogam avāpsyasi > When thy intellect, tossed about by the conflict of opinions—has become immovable and firmly established in the Self, then thou shalt attain Self-realisation. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.54) arjuna uvāca sthitaprajñasya kā bhāṣā samādhisthasya keśava sthitadhīḥ kiṃ prabhāṣeta kim āsīta vrajeta kim > Arjuna said: > What, O Keshava, is the description of the man of steady wisdom, merged in Samâdhi? How (on the other hand) does the man of steady wisdom speak, how sit, how walk? > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.55) śrībhagavān uvāca prajahāti yadā kāmān sarvān pārtha manogatān ātmany evātmanā tuṣṭaḥ sthitaprajñas tadocyate > The Blessed Lord said: > When a man completely casts away, O Pârtha, all the desires of the mind, satisfied in the Self alone by the Self, then is he said to be one of steady wisdom. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.56) duḥkheṣv anudvignamanāḥ sukheṣu vigataspṛhaḥ vītarāgabhayakrodhaḥ sthitadhīr munir ucyate > He whose mind is not shaken by adversity, who does not hanker after happiness, who has become free from affection, fear, and wrath, is indeed the Muni of steady wisdom. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.57) yaḥ sarvatrānabhisnehas tat tat prāpya śubhāśubham nābhinandati na dveṣṭi tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā > He who is everywhere unattached, not pleased at receiving good, nor vexed at evil, his wisdom is fixed. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.58) yadā saṃharate cāyaṃ kūrmo 'ṅgānīva sarvaśaḥ indriyāṇīndriyārthebhyas tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā > When also, like the tortoise its limbs, he can completely withdraw the senses from their objects, then his wisdom becomes steady. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.59) viṣayā vinivartante nirāhārasya dehinaḥ rasavarjaṃ raso 'py asya paraṃ dṛṣṭvā nivartate > Objects fall away from the abstinent man, leaving the longing behind. But his longing also ceases, who sees the Supreme. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.60) yatato hy api kaunteya puruṣasya vipaścitaḥ indriyāṇi pramāthīni haranti prasabhaṃ manaḥ > The turbulent senses, O son of Kunti, do violently snatch away the mind of even a wise man, striving after perfection. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.61) tāni sarvāṇi saṃyamya yukta āsīta matparaḥ vaśe hi yasyendriyāṇi tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā > The steadfast, having controlled them all, sits focussed on Me as the Supreme. His wisdom is steady, whose senses are under control. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.62) dhyāyato viṣayān puṃsaḥ saṅgas teṣūpajāyate saṅgāt saṃjāyate kāmaḥ kāmāt krodho 'bhijāyate > Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.63) krodhād bhavati saṃmohaḥ saṃmohāt smṛtivibhramaḥ smṛtibhraṃśād buddhināśo buddhināśāt praṇaśyati > From anger comes delusion, and from delusion loss of memory. From loss of memory comes the ruin of discrimination, and from the ruin of discrimination he perishes. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.64) rāgadveṣaviyuktais tu viṣayān indriyaiś caran ātmavaśyair vidheyātmā prasādam adhigacchati > But the self-controlled man, moving among objects with senses under restraint, and free from attraction and aversion, attains to tranquillity. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.65) prasāde sarvaduḥkhānāṃ hānir asyopajāyate prasannacetaso hy āśu buddhiḥ paryavatiṣṭhate > In tranquillity, all sorrow is destroyed. For the intellect of him who is tranquil-minded, is soon established in firmness. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.66) nāsti buddhir ayuktasya na cāyuktasya bhāvanā na cābhāvayataḥ śāntir aśāntasya kutaḥ sukham > No knowledge (of the Self) has the unsteady. Nor has he meditation. To the unmeditative there is no peace. And how can one without peace have happiness? > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.67) indriyāṇāṃ hi caratāṃ yan mano 'nuvidhīyate tad asya harati prajñāṃ vāyur nāvam ivāmbhasi > For, the mind which follows in the wake of the wandering senses, carries away his discrimination, as a wind (carries away from its course) a boat on the waters. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.68) tasmād yasya mahābāho nigṛhītāni sarvaśaḥ indriyāṇīndriyārthebhyas tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā > Therefore, O mighty-armed, his knowledge is steady, whose senses are completely restrained from their objects. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.69) yā niśā sarvabhūtānāṃ tasyāṃ jāgarti saṃyamī yasyāṃ jāgrati bhūtāni sā niśā paśyato muneḥ > That which is night to all beings, in that the self-controlled man wakes. That in which all beings wake, is night to the Self-seeing Muni. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.70) āpūryamāṇam acalapratiṣṭhaṃ; samudram āpaḥ praviśanti yadvat tadvat kāmā yaṃ praviśanti sarve; sa śāntim āpnoti na kāmakāmī > As into the ocean,—brimful, and still,—flow the waters, even so the Muni into whom enter all desires, he, and not the desirer of desires, attains to peace. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.71) vihāya kāmān yaḥ sarvān pumāṃś carati niḥspṛhaḥ nirmamo nirahaṃkāraḥ sa śāntim adhigacchati > That man who lives devoid of longing, abandoning all desires, without the sense of 'I' and 'mine,' he attains to peace. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [2.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2.72) eṣā brāhmī sthitiḥ pārtha naināṃ prāpya vimuhyati sthitvāsyām antakāle 'pi brahmanirvāṇam ṛcchati > This is to have one's being in Brahman, O son of Prithâ. None, attaining to this, becomes deluded. Being established therein, even at the end of life, a man attains to oneness with Brahman. > The end of second chapter, designated The Way of Knowledge. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ## Translations (3) - [Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita~en-swarupananda.2.1) — Swami Swarupananda 1909, English - [The Bhagavadgîtâ (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 8)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita~en-telang.2.p1) — Kashinath Trimbak Telang 1882, English - [The Song Celestial](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita~en-arnold.2.p1) — Edwin Arnold 1885, English ## Commentaries (16) - [Bhagavadgītābhāṣya (Śāṅkarabhāṣya)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!sankara.2.13) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Gītābhāṣya (of Rāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!ramanuja.2.1) — Rāmānuja, Sanskrit - [Subodhinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!sridhara.32.3) — Śrīdhara Svāmin, Sanskrit - [Jñāneśvarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.marathi.jnanesvara.jnanesvari.2.1) — Jñāneśvara, Marathi - [Bhagavadgītāvīraśaivabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!bhagavadgitavirasaivabhasya.2.222) — Sanskrit - [Bhagavadgītāvivaraṇa (Sarvatobhadra)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!bhagavadgitavivarana-sarvatobhadra.1.169) — Sanskrit - [Bhagavadāśayānusaraṇabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!bhaskara.68.3) — Bhāskara (Vedāntin), Sanskrit - [Gītārthasaṅgraha (of Abhinavagupta)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!abhinavagupta.1.81) — Abhinavagupta, Sanskrit - [Sārārthavarṣiṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!visvanatha.2.2) — Viśvanātha Cakravartin 1680, Sanskrit - [Tattvaprakāśikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!kesava-kasmiri.2.47) — Keśava Kāśmīrī, Sanskrit - [Tātparyabodhinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!samkarananda.4.4) — Śaṅkarānanda, Sanskrit - [Arthaprakāśikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!upanisadbrahmayogin.2.47) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1715, Sanskrit - [Bālabodhinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!g-s-pathak.2.1) — G.S. Pathak 1825, Sanskrit - [Gūḍhārthadīpikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!madhusudana.2.8) — Madhusūdana Sarasvatī 1570, Sanskrit - [Gūḍhārthacandrikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!vanamali-misra.3.35) — Vanamālī Miśra 1660, Sanskrit - [Vaṃśī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!vamsidhara-misra.5.2) — Vaṃśīdhara 1675, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Vulgate (700 verses)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*vulgate.2.1) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (8) - [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.6.26.1) — Sanskrit - [Jīvanmuktiviveka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.advaita.sastra.jivanmuktiviveka.2.17_2.p14) — Mādhava, Sanskrit - [Mokṣopāya (Kashmiri text, Śāradā transmission)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.advaita.moksopaya*kashmiri.6.58.2) — Sanskrit - [Yogavāsiṣṭha (vulgate)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.upajivya.yogavasistha*vulgate.6.54.2) — Sanskrit - [Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni*nag.380.3) — Sanskrit - [Svātantryadīpikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.saiva.trika.darsana.general.svatantryadipika.79) — Sanskrit - [Ajñānadhvāntacaṇḍabhāskara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.advaita.vada.amaresvara.ajnanadhvantacandabhaskara.5.352.8) — Amareśvara Śāstrin 1825, Sanskrit - [Śabdakalpadruma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.kosa.sabdakalpadruma.548.43) — Rājā Sir Rādhākānta Deb, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*crit.2) · Pramāṇa