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Arjuna said What are the marks of him who has transcended the three alities, O Lord? What is his conduct and how does he go beyond these three alities?

Arjuna said: By what signs, Lord, is one known who has gone beyond these three qualities? How does such a person behave, and how does one pass beyond the three qualities?

Arjuna asks three practical questions. What are the marks of someone who has transcended the three qualities? How does such a person behave? And by what means does one go beyond them? The questions closely resemble the ones he asked in the second chapter about the person of steady wisdom (sthitaprajña): how does such a one speak, sit and walk? Arjuna wants a living portrait, not only a principle. His questions show a desire to recognise the ideal and to know how to reach it. Krishna's answer will fill the rest of the chapter.