18.53 Without claiming anything as mine Krishna speaks
अहङ्कारं बलं दर्पं कामं क्रोधं परिग्रहम्
विमुच्य निर्ममः शान्तो ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते
ahankāraṁ balaṁ darpaṁ kāmaṁ krodhaṁ parigraham
vimuchya nirmamaḥ śhānto brahma-bhūyāya kalpate
free of the sense of self, of force, arrogance, desire, anger and possession, without claiming anything as “mine”, at peace — such a person is fit for the state of Brahman.
Explanation
Without claiming anything as mine.
Free of the sense of self, of force, arrogance, desire, anger and possession — nirmamaḥ, at peace.
The same word as 2.71 and 12.13. Of everything the book asks for across eighteen chapters, the phrase it returns to most often is the giving up of mine.
Word by word
- ahankāram
- egotism
- balam
- violence
- darpam
- arrogance
- kāmam
- desire
- krodham
- anger
- parigraham
- selfishness
- vimuchya
- being freed from
- nirmamaḥ
- without possessiveness of property
- śhāntaḥ
- peaceful
- brahma-bhūyāya
- union with Brahman
- kalpate
- is fit
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