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Bhagavad Gita 6.24

सङ्कल्पप्रभवान्कामांस्त्यक्त्वा सर्वानशेषतः।मनसैवेन्द्रियग्रामं विनियम्य समन्ततः॥

saṅkalpaprabhavānkāmāṃstyaktvā sarvānaśeṣataḥ |manasaivendriyagrāmaṃ viniyamya samantataḥ ||

Abandoning unreservedly all desires born of Sankalpa (thought and imagination) and completely restraining the whole group of senses by the mind from all sides.

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

Renouncing every desire that can be imagined, controlling the senses at every point through the power of the mind;

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 6.24 · SatsangVidya