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Bhagavad Gita 17.16

मनःप्रसादः सौम्यत्वं मौनमात्मविनिग्रहः।भावसंशुद्धिरित्येतत्तपो मानसमुच्यते॥

manaḥprasādaḥ saumyatvaṃ maunamātmavinigrahaḥ |bhāvasaṃśuddhirityetattapo mānasamucyate ||

Serenity of mind, good-heartedness, self-control, and purity of nature—this is called mental austerity.

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

Serenity, kindness, silence, self-control, and purity—these are the austerities of the mind.

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.

Bhagavad Gita 17.16 · Vidya