BG 13.7-11
आचार्योपासनं शौचं स्थैर्यमात्मविनिग्रहः ॥
इन्द्रियार्थेषु वैराग्यमनहङ्कार एव च ।
जन्ममृत्युजराव्याधिदुःखदोषानुदर्शनम् ॥
असक्तिरनभिष्वङ्गः पुत्रदारगृहादिषु ।
नित्यं च समचित्तत्वमिष्टानिष्टोपपत्तिषु ॥
मयि चानन्ययोगेन भक्तिरव्यभिचारिणी ।
विविक्तदेशसेवित्वमरतिर्जनसंसदि ॥
अध्यात्मज्ञाननित्यत्वं तत्त्वज्ञानार्थदर्शनम् ।
एतज्ज्ञानमिति प्रोक्तमज्ञानं यदतोऽन्यथा ॥
ācāryopāsanaṁ śaucaṁ sthairyam ātma-vinigrahaḥ
indriyārtheṣu vairāgyam anahaṅkāra eva ca
janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam
asaktir anabhiṣvaṅgaḥ putra-dāra-gṛhādiṣu
nityaṁ ca sama-cittatvam iṣṭāniṣṭopapattiṣu
mayi cānanya-yogena bhaktir avyabhicāriṇī
vivikta-deśa-sevitvam aratir jana-saṁsadi
adhyātma-jñāna-nityatvaṁ tattva-jñānārtha-darśanam
etaj jñānam iti proktam ajñānaṁ yad ato ’nyathā
Word-for-word meanings
amānitvam — humility; adambhitvam — freedom from deceit; ahiṁsā — non-violence; kṣāntiḥ — forbearance; ārjavam — simplicity; ācārya-upāsanam — service to an authentic teacher; śaucam — purity; sthairyam — steadiness; ātma-vinigrahaḥ — restraint of the body; vairāgyam — dispassion; indriya-artheṣu — in regard to the sense objects; eva ca — and indeed; anahaṅkāraḥ — disidentification with the conditional I-sense; anudarśanam — contemplation; duḥkha-doṣa — [of] the miserable defects; janma — [of] birth; mṛtyu — death; jarā — old age; vyādhi — [and] disease; asaktiḥ — detachment from; anabhiṣvaṅgaḥ — [and] disidentification with; putra — children; dāra — wife; gṛha-ādiṣu — home, and so on; ca — and; nityam — constant; sama-cittatvam — even-mindedness; iṣṭa — [in] favorable; aniṣṭa — [and] unfavorable; upapattiṣu — circumstances; ca — and; avyabhicāriṇī — undeviating; bhaktiḥ — pure devotion; mayi — unto Me; ananya-yogena — with exclusive absorption; sevitvam — residence; vivikta — [in] a secluded; deśa — place; aratiḥ — non-attachment; jana-saṁsadi — to the association of worldly people; nityatvam — constancy; jñāna — in the culture of knowledge; adhyātma — pertaining to the Self; artha-darśanam — [and] deliberation on the goal; tattva-jñāna — [of] knowledge regarding the Absolute; iti etat — [all] this; proktam — is declared; jñānam — to be knowledge; yat — whatever; anyathā — [is] different; ataḥ — from this; ajñānam — [is] ignorance.
Translation
Humility, freedom from deceit, non-violence, forbearance, simplicity, service to an authentic teacher, purity [internal and external], steadiness, restraint of the body, dispassion for sense objects, disidentification with the conditional I-sense, contemplation of the miserable defects of birth, death, old age, and disease, detachment from and disidentification with children, wife, home, and so on, constant even-mindedness in favorable and unfavorable circumstances, undeviating pure devotion unto Me with exclusive absorption, residence in a secluded place, non-attachment to the association of worldly people, constancy in the culture of knowledge pertaining to the Self, and deliberation on the goal of knowledge regarding the Absolute — all this is declared to be knowledge. Whatever is different from this is ignorance.