Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18, Verse 53

Contents

• 1 अहङ्कारं बलं दर्पं कामं क्रोधं परिग्रहम् |
• 2 विमुच्य निर्मम: शान्तो ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते || 53||
• 3 भावार्थ:
• 4 Translation

अहङ्कारं बलं दर्पं कामं क्रोधं परिग्रहम् |

विमुच्य निर्मम: शान्तो ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते || 53||

ahankāraṁ balaṁ darpaṁ kāmaṁ krodhaṁ parigraham
vimuchya nirmamaḥ śhānto brahma-bhūyāya kalpate

भावार्थ:

करण और इंद्रियों का संयम करके मन, वाणी और शरीर को वश में कर लेने वाला, राग-द्वेष को सर्वथा नष्ट करके भलीभाँति दृढ़ वैराग्य का आश्रय लेने वाला तथा अहंकार, बल, घमंड, काम, क्रोध और परिग्रह का त्याग करके निरंतर ध्यान योग के परायण रहने वाला, ममतारहित और शांतियुक्त पुरुष सच्चिदानन्दघन ब्रह्म में अभिन्नभाव से स्थित होने का पात्र होता है॥

Translation

18.53 Having abandoned egoism, strength, arrogance, desire, anger and covetousness, and free from the notion of ‘mine’ and peaceful, he is fit for becoming Brahman.

English Translation Of Sri Shankaracharya’s Sanskrit Commentary By Swami Gambirananda

18.53 (That person) vimucya, having discarded; ahan-karam, egotism, thinking of the body, organs, etc. as the ego; balam, force-which is associated with desire and attachment; not the other kind of strength consisting in the fitness of the body etc., becuase being natural it cannot be descarded-; darpam, pride, which follows elation and leads to transgresson of righteousness-for the Smrti says, ‘An elated person becomes proud; a proud man transgresses righteousness’ (Ap. Dh. Su. 1.13.4); kamam, desire; krodham, anger, aversion; parigraham, superfluous possessions-even after removing the defects in the organs and the mind, there arises the possibility of acceptance of gifts either for the maintenance of the body or for righteous duties; discarding them as well, i.e. becoming a mendicant of the param-hamsa class; nirmamah, free from the idea of possession, becoming devoid of the idea of ‘me’ and ‘mine’ even with regard to so much as one’s body and life; and for the very same reason, santah, serene, withdrawn; the monk who is effortless and steadfast in Knowledge, kalpate, becomes fit; brahma-bhuyaya, for becoming Brahman.

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