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Chapter 18 · Verse 51 · Moksha Sanyaas Yoga

Bhagavad Gita 18.51

transformative Moksha & Liberation Mind & Meditation Attachment & Letting Go

Sanskrit

बुद्ध्या विशुद्धया युक्तो धृत्याऽऽत्मानं नियम्य च।शब्दादीन् विषयांस्त्यक्त्वा रागद्वेषौ व्युदस्य च।।18.51।।

Transliteration

buddhyā viśhuddhayā yukto dhṛityātmānaṁ niyamya cha śhabdādīn viṣhayāns tyaktvā rāga-dveṣhau vyudasya cha

Word by Word

buddhyā intellect
viśhuddhayā purified
yuktaḥ endowed with
dhṛityā by determination
ātmānam the intellect
niyamya restraining
cha and
śhabda-ādīn viṣhayān sound and other objects of the senses
tyaktvā abandoning
rāga-dveṣhau attachment and aversion
vyudasya casting aside
cha and
Simplified Perspective

This verse reveals the final architecture of liberation: a purified intellect wedded to unshakable resolve, systematically releasing the mind from sense-objects and the magnetic pull of likes and dislikes. The Vedantic masters teach that moksha is not achieved through denial alone, but through the clear discrimination of a refined intellect that recognizes all sensory attachments as ephemeral mirages.

'—until indifference to praise and blame becomes your natural state.

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Bhagavad Gita 18.51 — BG 18.51

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Sanskrit text from the Bhagavad Gita (public domain). Commentary © Mahakatha.

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