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Bhagavad Gita 13.8

इन्द्रियार्थेषु वैराग्यमनहङ्कार एव च।जन्ममृत्युजराव्याधिदुःखदोषानुदर्शनम्॥

indriyārtheṣu vairāgyamanahaṅkāra eva ca |janmamṛtyujarāvyādhiduḥkhadoṣānudarśanam ||

Indifference to the objects of the senses and also absence of egoism; perceiving the evil in birth, death, old age, sickness, and pain.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

Renouncing the delights of the senses, being without pride, having a right understanding of the painful problem of birth and death, and of age and sickness;

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.