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Verse 2·55

Marks of the man of steady wisdom

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प्रजहाति यदा कामान् सर्वान्पार्थ मनोगतान् ।आत्मन्येवात्मना तुष्टः स्थितप्रज्ञस्तदोच्यते ॥

prajahāti yadā kāmān sarvānpārtha manogatānātmanyevātmanā tuṣṭaḥ sthitaprajñastadocyate

The Blessed Lord said: When a man expels, O Partha, all desires from the mind, and is satisfied in the self by the self, then is he called stable in intelligence.

Gītā 2·55

Arjuna, voicing the average human mind, asks for some outward, physical, practically discernible sign of this great Samadhi; how does such a man speak, how sit, how walk? No such signs can be given, nor does the Teacher attempt to supply them; for the only possible test of its possession is inward and that there are plenty of hostile psychological forces to apply. Equality is the great stamp of the liberated soul and of that equality even the most discernible signs are still subjective.

CWSA 19 · Essays on the Gita · p. 102

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