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Bhagavad Gita 2.61

तानि सर्वाणि संयम्य युक्त आसीत मत्परः।वशे हि यस्येन्द्रियाणि तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता॥

tāni sarvāṇi saṃyamya yukta āsīta matparaḥ |vaśe hi yasyendriyāṇi tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā ||

Having restrained them all, he should sit steadfast, intent on Me; his wisdom is steady whose senses are under control.

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

Restraining them all, let him steadfastly meditate on Me; for whoever conquers their senses achieves perfection.

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.