Chapter 2 Overview
Verse 2.55
श्री भगवानुवाच प्रजहाति यदा कामान् सर्वान् पार्थ मनोगतान्। आत्मन्येवात्मना तुष्टः स्थितप्रज्ञस्तदोच्यते।।2.55।।
śhrī bhagavān uvācha prajahāti yadā kāmān sarvān pārtha mano-gatān ātmany-evātmanā tuṣhṭaḥ sthita-prajñas tadochyate
Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 2, Verse 55
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Sanskrit to English Translation
Translator:
The Blessed Lord said, "When a man completely casts off, O Arjuna, all the desires of the mind and is satisfied in the Self by the Self, then he is said to be one of steady wisdom."
A Reading - Rantideb
Why: Krishna's answer starts with desire, not perception, someone whose satisfaction comes from within rather than from what they're chasing.
In life: contentment that depends on getting what you want is fragile by definition.
Teaching: notice how much of your daily mood depends on external wins, and practice finding some baseline satisfaction that doesn't depend on any of them landing.
śhrī-bhagavān uvāchaThe Supreme Lord said
prajahātidiscards
yadāwhen
kāmānselfish desires
sarvānall
pārthaArjun, the son of Pritha
manaḥ-gatānof the mind
ātmaniof the self
evaonly
ātmanāby the purified mind
tuṣhṭaḥsatisfied
sthita-prajñaḥone with steady intellect
tadāat that time
uchyateis said
Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)
Author:
2.55 प्रजहाति casts off? यदा when? कामान् desires? सर्वान् all? पार्थ O Partha? मनोगतान् of the mind? आत्मनि in the Self? एव only? आत्मना by the Self? तुष्टः satisfied? स्थितप्रज्ञः of steady wisdom? तदा then? उच्यते (he) is called.Commentary In this verse Lord Krishna gives His answer to the first part of Arjunas estion.If anyone gets sugarcandy will he crave for blacksugar Certainly not. If anyone can attain the supreme bliss of the Self? will he thirst for the sensual pleasures No? not at all. The sumtotal of all the pleasures of the world will seem worthless for the sage of steady wisdom who is satisfied in the Self. (Cf.III.17VI.7?8).