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Bhagavad Gita 5.24

योऽन्तःसुखोऽन्तरारामस्तथान्तर्ज्योतिरेव यः।स योगी ब्रह्मनिर्वाणं ब्रह्मभूतोऽधिगच्छति॥

yo'ntaḥsukho'ntarārāmastathāntarjyotireva yaḥ |sa yogī brahmanirvāṇaṃ brahmabhūto'dhigacchati ||

He who is happy within, who rejoices within, and who is illuminated within, that Yogi attains absolute freedom, or Moksha, becoming Brahman himself.

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

He who is happy within himself and has found its peace, and in whom the inner light shines, that sage attains eternal bliss and becomes one with the spirit.

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 5.24 · Vidya