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18.51 A purified understanding Krishna speaks

बुद्ध्या विशुद्धया युक्तो धृत्याऽऽत्मानं नियम्य च
शब्दादीन् विषयांस्त्यक्त्वा रागद्वेषौ व्युदस्य च

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

Joined to a purified understanding, holding the self in check by steadiness, having given up sound and the other objects of sense, having put aside craving and aversion;

Explanation

A purified understanding.

Holding the self by steadiness, having given up sound and the other objects, having put aside craving and aversion.

rāga-dveṣau — the pair 3.34 located in the senses. The summary is assembling, in four verses, what the middle chapters spent hundreds establishing.

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