BG 18.51-53
शब्दादीन्विषयांस्त्यक्त्वा रागद्वेषौ व्युदस्य च ॥
विविक्तसेवी लघ्वाशी यतवाक्कायमानसः ।
ध्यानयोगपरो नित्यं वैराग्यं समुपाश्रितः ॥
अहङ्कारं बलं दर्पं कामं क्रोधं परिग्रहम् ।
विमुच्य निर्ममः शान्तो ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते ॥
śabdādīn viṣayāṁs tyaktvā rāga-dveṣau vyudasya ca
vivikta-sevī laghv-āśī yata-vāk-kāya-mānasaḥ
dhyāna-yoga-paro nityaṁ vairāgyaṁ samupāśritaḥ
ahaṅkāraṁ balaṁ darpaṁ kāmaṁ krodhaṁ parigraham
vimucya nirmamaḥ śānto brahma-bhūyāya kalpate
Word-for-word meanings
yuktaḥ — endowed; viśuddhayā — with pure; buddhyā — intellect; ca — and; niyamya — controlling; ātmānam — the mind; dhṛtyā — with fortitude; tyaktvā — forsaking; viṣayān — sense objects; śabda-ādīn — such as pleasing sound; ca — and; vyudasya — giving up completely; rāga — attachment; dveṣau — [and] hatred; vivikta-sevī — living in a solitary place; laghu-āśī — eating little; yata — controlling; vāk — speech; kāya — the body; mānasaḥ — [and] mind; nityam — [being] always; dhyāna-yoga-paraḥ — devoted to the yoga of meditation; samupāśritaḥ — fully taking refuge; vairāgyam — [in] dispassion; vimucya — giving up; ahaṅkāram — egotism; balam — the force of material desires; darpam — arrogance; kāmam — desire for sense pleasures; krodham — anger; parigraham — [and] possessions; nirmamaḥ — being free from the notion of ownership; śāntaḥ — [and] being serene at heart; kalpate — one becomes eligible; brahma-bhūyāya — to realize Brahman.
Translation
Endowed with pure intellect; controlling the mind with fortitude; forsaking sense objects such as pleasing sound; giving up attachment and hatred completely; living in a solitary place and eating little; controlling the body, speech, and mind; being ever devoted to the yoga of meditation [on Bhagavān]; fully taking refuge in dispassion; giving up egotism, the force of material desires, arrogance, desires for sense pleasures, anger, and possessions; and being free from the notion of ownership and serene at heart, one becomes eligible to realize Brahman.