Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 18, Verse 53

अहङ्कारं बलं दर्पं कामं क्रोधं परिग्रहम् । विमुच्य निर्ममः शान्तो ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते

ahaṅkāraṃ balaṃ darpaṃ kāmaṃ krodhaṃ parigraham | vimucya nirmamaḥ śānto brahmabhūyāya kalpate

Translation

Having abandoned egotism, strength, arrogance, desire, enmity, property, free from the notion of "mine," and peaceful, he is fit for becoming Brahman.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

ahaṅkāram

egoism

balam

violence

darpam

arrogance

kāmam

desire

krodham

wrath

parigraham

covetousness

vimucya

having abandoned

nirmamaḥ

without-mineness

śāntaḥ

peaceful

brahmabhūyāya

of Brahman, for the nature

kalpate

is fit

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

Egotism: identifying the Self with the body. Strength: that strength which is combined with passion and desire, but not the physical or any other strength. Arrogance: which follows the state of exultation and leads to the transgression of dharma. Property: even what is necessary for bodily sustenance the aspirant abandons; i.e., he becomes a Paramahaṃsa-Parivrājaka, a saṃnyāsin of the fourth or highest order. He does not regard even the bodily life as his. Peaceful: free from exultation and care.