Verse 2.54

स्थितप्रज्ञस्य का भाषा समाधिस्थस्य केशव ।

स्थितधीः किं प्रभाषेत किमासीत व्रजेत किम् ॥

2.54

Transliteration

sthitaprajñasya kā bhāṣā samādhisthasya keśava |

sthitadhīḥ kiṃ prabhāṣeta kimāsīta vrajeta kim ||

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Translation

Arjuna said What, O Krishna, is the description of him who has steady wisdom, and is merged in the superconscious state? How does one of steady wisdom speak, how does he sit, how does he walk?

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Word by word

of one of steady wisdom
what
description
of one established in samadhi
O Keshava

one of steady mind
how
would speak
how
would sit
would walk
how

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explanation

Arjuna asks a practical question that opens the final section of the chapter. How is the sthitaprajña, the person of steady wisdom established in concentration, to be recognised? How does such a person speak, sit and move? He wants to know what inner steadiness looks like in daily life. Krishna's answer, running to the end of the chapter, becomes one of the Gita's most loved descriptions of the ideal person, and it is often recited on its own.