SLOKA OF THE DAY:

Bhagavad Gita As It Is -
Chapter 18 Text 51-53
buddhya visuddhaya yukto dhrtyatmanam niyamya ca sabdadin visayams tyaktva raga-dvesau vyudasya ca

vivikta-sevi laghv-asi yata-vak-kaya-manasah dhyana-yoga-paro nityam vairagyam samupasritah

ahankaram balam darpam kamam krodham parigraham vimucya nirmamah santo brahma-bhuyaya kalpate

buddhya--with the intelligence; visuddhaya--fully purified; yuktah--engaged; dhrtya--by determination; atmanam--the self; niyamya--regulating; ca--also;sabda-adin--such as sound; visayan--the sense objects; tyaktva--giving up; raga--attachment; dvesau--and hatred; vyudasya--laying aside; ca--also;vivikta-sevi--living in a secluded place; laghu-asi--eating a small quantity; yata--having controlled; vak--speech; kaya--body; manasah--and mind; dhyana-yoga-parah--absorbed in trance; nityam--twenty-four hours a day; vairagyam--detachment; samupasritah--having taken shelter of; ahankaram--falseego; balam--falsestrength; darpam--false pride; kamam--lust; krodham--anger; parigraham--and acceptance of materialthings; vimucya--being delivered from; nirmamah--without a sense of proprietorship; santah--peaceful; brahma-bhuyaya--for self-realization; kalpate--is qualified.

TRANSLATION

Being purified by his intelligence and controlling the mind with determination, giving up the objects of sense gratification, being freed from attachment and hatred, one who lives in a secluded place, who eats little, who controls his body, mind and power of speech, who is always in trance and who is detached, free from false ego, false strength, false pride, lust, anger, and acceptnce of material things, free from false proprietorship, and peaceful--such a person is certainly elevated to the position of self-realization.