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Aligning Consciousness

Ch 2Verse 55
Adhyāya 2 Shloka 55

श्रीभगवानुवाच | प्रजहाति यदा कामान्सर्वान्पार्थ मनोगतान् | आत्मन्येवात्मना तुष्ट: स्थितप्रज्ञस्तदोच्यते || ५५ ||

śrī-bhagavān uvāca | prajahāti yadā kāmān sarvān pārtha mano-gatān | ātmany evātmanā tuṣṭaḥ sthita-prajñas tadochyate || 55 ||

"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O Partha, when a man gives up all varieties of desire for sense gratification, which arise from mental concoction, and when his mind, thus purified, finds satisfaction in the self alone, then he is said to be in pure transcendental consciousness."

Historical Context

The Direct Meaning

Krishna begins answering Arjuna’s questions by defining the core internal state of the Sthita-prajña. He provides two specific conditions. First: the person completely discards (prajahāti) all desires (kāmān sarvān) that enter the mind (mano-gatān). Second: the person is completely satisfied (tuṣṭaḥ) in the Self, by the Self alone (ātmany evātmanā). When these two conditions are met, one is called a person of steady wisdom.

Translated from the original Sanskrit text

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