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The Blessed Lord said When a man completely casts off, O Arjuna, all the desires of the mind and is satisfied in the Self by the Self, then is he said to be one of steady wisdom.

The Lord said: Son of Pritha, when a person gives up all the desires that arise in the mind and is content in the self by the self alone, then that person is called one of steady wisdom.

Krishna's first answer goes to the root. A person is called sthitaprajña, one of steady wisdom, when they give up all the desires that arise in the mind and are content in the self (ātman) by the self alone. Contentment does not depend on anything outside. The verse defines steadiness negatively, as freedom from craving, and positively, as an inner satisfaction that needs no object. Different traditions describe that inner self in different terms, but all read the verse as describing a fullness that makes grasping unnecessary.