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Bhagavad Gita 2.71

विहाय कामान्यः सर्वान्पुमांश्चरति निःस्पृहः।निर्ममो निरहंकारः स शांतिमधिगच्छति॥

vihāya kāmānyaḥ sarvānpumāṃścarati niḥspṛhaḥ |nirmamo nirahaṃkāraḥ sa śāṃtimadhigacchati ||

That person attains peace who, abandoning all desires, moves about without longing, without the sense of ownership, and without egoism.

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

He attains peace who, giving up desire, moves through the world without aspiration, possessing nothing that he can call his own and is free from pride.

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.