Shrimad Bhagavad Gita As It Is -Shri Shrimad A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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Nature, the Enjoyer, and Consciousness
Chapter 13: Verse-8-12
amänitvam adambhitvam ahimsä ksäntir ärjavam TRANSLATION
Humility; pridelessness; nonviolence; tolerance; simplicity; approaching a bona fide spiritual master; cleanliness; steadiness; self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification; absence of false ego; the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; detachment; freedom from entanglement with children, wife, home and the rest; even-mindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events; constant and unalloyed devotion to Me; aspiring to live in a solitary place; detachment from the general mass of people; accepting the importance of self-realization; and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth—all these I declare to be knowledge, and besides this whatever there may be is ignorance.
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References
- ↑ amänitvam=humility; adambhitvam=pridelessness; ahimsä=nonviolence;
ksäntih=tolerance; ärjavam=simplicity; äcärya-upäsanam=approaching a bona fide spiritual master; saucam=cleanliness; sthairyam=steadfastness;
ätma-vinigrahah=self-control; indriya-arthesu=in the matter of the senses; vairägyam=renunciation; anahankärah=being without false egoism;
eva=certainly; ca=also; janma=of birth; mrtyu=death; jarä=old age; vyädhi=and disease; duhkha=of the distress; dosa=the fault;
anudarsanam=observing; asaktih=being without attachment; anabhisvangah=being without association; putra=for son; dära=wife;
grha-ädisu=home, etc.; nityam=constant; ca=also; sama-cittatvam=equilibrium; ista=the desirable; anista=and undesirable; upapattisu=having obtained; mayi=unto Me; ca=also; ananya-yogena=by unalloyed devotional service; bhaktih=devotion; avyabhicärini=without anybreak; vivikta=to solitary; desa=places; sevitvam=aspiring; aratih=being without attachment; jana-samsadi=to people in general; adhyätma=pertaining to the self; jnäna=in knowledge; nityatvam=constancy; tattva-jnäna=of knowledge of the truth; artha=for the object; darsanam=philosophy; etat=all this; jnänam=knowledge; iti=thus; proktam=declared; ajnänam=ignorance; yat=that which; atah=from this; anyathä=other.