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Bhagavad Gita 6.10

योगी युञ्जीत सततमात्मानं रहसि स्थितः।एकाकी यतचित्तात्मा निराशीरपरिग्रहः॥

yogī yuñjīta satatamātmānaṃ rahasi sthitaḥ |ekākī yatacittātmā nirāśīraparigrahaḥ ||

Let the yogi constantly strive to keep the mind steady, remaining in solitude, alone, with the body and mind controlled, and free from hope and greed.

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

Let the student of spirituality try unceasingly to concentrate his mind; let him live in seclusion, absolutely alone, with his mind and personality controlled, free from desire and without possessions.

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.