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asaktam

  • those who are unattached
  • detached
  • unattached
  • those whose intellect is unattached

Also appears as asakta-ātmā, asakta-buddhiḥ

In 4 verses

Chapter 1 4 of 18 chapters Chapter 18
  1. 5.21

    बाह्यस्पर्शेष्वसक्तात्मा विन्दत्यात्मनि यत्सुखम्

    asakta-ātmā — those who are unattached

    Unattached to outward contacts, one finds the happiness that is in the self. Joined to Brahman through yoga, such a person reaches inexhaustible joy.

  2. 9.9

    न च मां तानि कर्माणि निबध्नन्ति धनञ्जय

    asaktam — detached

    And these actions do not bind me, Arjuna. I am seated as though indifferent, unattached to them.

  3. 13.15

    सर्वेन्द्रियगुणाभासं सर्वेन्द्रियविवर्जितम्

    asaktam — unattached

    It appears through the qualities of all the senses and yet is without any sense; unattached, and yet the support of everything; without the strands of nature, and yet the enjoyer of them.

  4. 18.49

    असक्तबुद्धिः सर्वत्र जितात्मा विगतस्पृहः

    asakta-buddhiḥ — those whose intellect is unattached

    One whose understanding is unattached everywhere, who has mastered themselves and is free of longing, reaches by renunciation the highest state beyond action.