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Verse 5·17

The highest person dwells in equanimity

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तद्बुद्धयस्तदात्मानस् तन्निष्ठास्तत्परायणाः ।गच्छन्त्यपुनरावृत्तिं ज्ञाननिर्धूतकल्मषाः ॥

tadbuddhayastadātmānas tanniṣṭhāstatparāyaṇāḥgacchantyapunarāvṛttiṃ jñānanirdhūtakalmaṣāḥ

Turning their discerning mind to That, directing their whole conscious being to That, making That their whole aim and the sole object of their devotion, they go whence there is no return, their sins washed by the waters of knowledge.

Gītā 5·17

By a long whole-hearted endeavour, by directing our whole conscious being to that, by making that our whole aim, by turning it into the whole object of our discerning mind and so seeing it not only in ourselves but everywhere, we become one thought and self with that, tat buddhayaḥ, tat ātmānaḥ, we are washed clean of all the darkness and suffering of the lower man by the waters of knowledge.

CWSA 19 · Essays on the Gita · p. 202

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