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Bhagavad Gita 6.13

समं कायशिरोग्रीवं धारयन्नचलं स्थिरः।संप्रेक्ष्य नासिकाग्रं स्वं दिशश्चानवलोकयन्॥

samaṃ kāyaśirogrīvaṃ dhārayannacalaṃ sthiraḥ |saṃprekṣya nāsikāgraṃ svaṃ diśaścānavalokayan ||

Let him firmly hold his body, head, and neck erect and still, gazing at the tip of his nose without looking around.

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

Let him hold his body, head, and neck erect, motionless and steady; let him look fixedly at the tip of his nose, turning neither to the right nor to the left.

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.