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But his longing also ceases, who sees the Supreme. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.24.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.24.60) yatato hyapi kaunteya puruṣasya vipaścitaḥ | indriyāṇi pramāthīni haranti prasabhaṃ manaḥ || 60 || > 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 ### [6.24.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.24.61) tāni sarvāṇi saṃyamya yukta āsīta matparaḥ | vaśe hi yasyendriyāṇi tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā || 61 || > 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 ### [6.24.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.24.62) dhyāyato viṣayānpuṃsaḥ saṅgasteṣūpajāyate | saṅgātsaṃjāyate kāmaḥ kāmātkrodho'bhijāyate || 62 || > 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 ### [6.24.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.24.63) krodhādbhavati saṃmohaḥ saṃmohātsmṛtivibhramaḥ | smṛtibhraṃśādbuddhināśo buddhināśātpraṇaśyati || 63 || > 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 ### [6.24.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.24.64) rāgadveṣaviyuktaistu viṣayānindriyaiścaran | ātmavaśyairvidheyātmā prasādamadhigacchati || 64 || > 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 ### [6.24.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.24.65) prasāde sarvaduḥkhānāṃ hānirasyopajāyate | prasannacetaso hyāśu buddhiḥ paryavatiṣṭhate || 65 || > 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 ### [6.24.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.24.66) nāsti buddhirayuktasya na cāyuktasya bhāvanā | na cābhāvayataḥ śāntiraśāntasya kutaḥ sukham || 66 || > 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 ### [6.24.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.24.67) indriyāṇāṃ hi caratāṃ yanmano'nuvidhīyate | tadasya harati prajñāṃ vāyurnāvamivāmbhasi || 67 || > 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 ### [6.24.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.24.68) tasmādyasya mahābāho nigṛhītāni sarvaśaḥ | indriyāṇīndriyārthebhyastasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā || 68 || > Therefore, O mighty-armed, his knowledge is steady, whose senses are completely restrained from their objects. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.24.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.24.69) yā niśā sarvabhūtānāṃ tasyāṃ jāgarti saṃyamī | yasyāṃ jāgrati bhūtāni sā niśā paśyato muneḥ || 69 || > 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 ### [6.24.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.24.70) āpūryamāṇamacalapratiṣṭhaṃ samudramāpaḥ praviśanti yadvat | tadvatkāmā yaṃ praviśanti sarve sa śāntimāpnoti na kāmakāmī || 70 || > 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 ### [6.24.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.24.71) vihāya kāmānyaḥ sarvānpumāṃścarati niḥspṛhaḥ | nirmamo nirahaṃkāraḥ sa śāntimadhigacchati || 71 || > 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 ### [6.24.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.24.72) eṣā brāhmī sthitiḥ pārtha naināṃ prāpya vimuhyati | sthitvāsyāmantakāle'pi brahmanirvāṇamṛcchati || 72 || > 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 (2) - [Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita~en-swarupananda.2.55) — Swami Swarupananda 1909, English - [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa~en-ganguli.6.26.7) — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Bhāratabhāvadīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa!nilakantha.6.26.55) — Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara 1650, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (2) - [Southern recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*southern.6.26.55) — Sanskrit - [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.6.26.55) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (5) - [Bhagavadgītā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.2.55) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vulgate (700 verses)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*vulgate.2.56) — Sanskrit - [Jīvanmuktiviveka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.advaita.sastra.jivanmuktiviveka.1.55.p2) — Mādhava, Sanskrit - [Bṛhaddharmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.upa.sakta.brhaddharma.50.57) — Sanskrit - [Śrīvācanabhūṣaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.visistadvaita.tenkalai.srivacanabhusana.2.198) — Piḷḷai Lokācārya, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.24.55-72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.24.55-72) · Pramāṇa