Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 71

विहाय कामान्यः सर्वान्पुमांश्चरति निःस्पृहः। निर्ममो निरहंकारः स शांतिमधिगच्छति।।2.71।।

vihāya kāmān yaḥ sarvān pumānśh charati niḥspṛihaḥ nirmamo nirahankāraḥ sa śhāntim adhigachchhati

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Word Meanings

vihāya—giving up
kāmān—material desires
yaḥ—who
sarvān—all
pumān—a person
charati—lives
niḥspṛihaḥ—free from hankering
nirmamaḥ—without a sense of proprietorship
nirahankāraḥ—without egoism
saḥ—that person
śhāntim—perfect peace
adhigachchhati—attains
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Translation

That person attains peace who, abandoning all desires, moves about without longing, without the sense of ownership, and without egoism.

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Commentary

2.71 विहाय abandoning? कामान् desires? यः that? सर्वान् all? पुमान् man? चरति moves about? निःस्पृहः free from longing? निर्ममः devoid of mineness? निरहंकारः without egoism? सः he? शान्तिम् to peace? अधिगच्छति attains.Commentary That man who lives destitute of longing? abandoning all desires? without the senses of I and mine? who is satisfied with the bare necessities of life? who does not care even for those bare necessities of life? who has no attachment even for the bare necessities of life? attains Moksha or eternal peace. (Cf.II.55).

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