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Bhagavad Gītā 5.23

BG 5.23

शक्नोतीहैव यः सोढुं प्राक्शरीरविमोक्षणात्। कामक्रोधोद्भवं वेगं स युक्तः स सुखी नरः

śhaknotīhaiva yaḥ soḍhuṁ prāk śharīra-vimokṣhaṇāt kāma-krodhodbhavaṁ vegaṁ sa yuktaḥ sa sukhī naraḥ

He who, before leaving his body, learns to overcome the promptings of desire and anger, is a saint and is happy.

Translated by Shri Purohit Swami

He who is able, while still here in this world, to withstand the impulse born out of desire and anger before the liberation from the body, he is a Yogi, and he is a happy man.

Translated by Swami Sivananda

Word meanings (from the gita/gita dataset)

śhaknoti—is able; iha eva—in the present body; yaḥ—who; soḍhum—to withstand; prāk—before; śharīra—the body; vimokṣhaṇāt—giving up; kāma—desire; krodha—anger; udbhavam—generated from; vegam—forces; saḥ—that person; yuktaḥ—yogi; saḥ—that person; sukhī—happy; naraḥ—person

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Cite as: Bhagavad Gītā 5.23, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/BG/5.23), after https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/gita/gita@main (gita/gita on GitHub, Unlicense).

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Dataset: Unlicense (public domain dedication). Translations: see per-translation licence.

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