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Bhagavad Gita 18.52

विविक्तसेवी लघ्वाशी यतवाक्कायमानसः।ध्यानयोगपरो नित्यं वैराग्यं समुपाश्रितः॥

viviktasevī laghvāśī yatavākkāyamānasaḥ |dhyānayogaparo nityaṃ vairāgyaṃ samupāśritaḥ ||

Dwelling in solitude, eating sparingly, with speech, body, and mind subdued, always engaged in meditation and concentration, and resorting to dispassion.

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

Enjoying solitude, being abstemious, having his body, mind, and speech under perfect control, and being absorbed in meditation, he becomes free—always filled with the spirit of renunciation.

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

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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.

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