Chapter 4 · Knowledge and Renunciation of Action

    Verse 10

    Sanskrit Text — Chapter 4, Verse 10

    वीतरागभयक्रोधा मन्मया मामुपाश्रिताः। बहवो ज्ञानतपसा पूता मद्भावमागताः।।4.10।।

    Transliteration (IAST)

    vīta-rāga-bhaya-krodhā man-mayā mām upāśhritāḥ bahavo jñāna-tapasā pūtā mad-bhāvam āgatāḥ

    Translation

    Freed from desire, fear, and wrath, absorbed in Me, depending upon Me, purified by the austerity of knowledge, many have attained My state.
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