He knows bliss in the Atman and wants nothing else. Carvings
torment the heart: he renounces cravings. I call him illumined. (2.55)
Not shaken by adversity, not hankering after happiness, free
from fear, free from anger, free from the things of desire. I call him a seer
and illumined. (2.56)
The recollected mind is awake in the knowledge of the Atman
which is dark night to the ignorant: the ignorant are awake in their sense life
which they think is daylight to the seer it is darkness. (2.69)
This is the state of enlightenment in Brahman: a man does
not fall back from it into delusion. Even at the moment of death he is alive in
that enlightenment: Brahman and He are one. (2:72)
With heart serene and fearless, firm in the vow of
renunciation, holding the mind from its restless roaming, now let him struggle
to reach my oneness, ever absorbed, his eyes on me always, his prize, his
purpose. (6.14)
When a man has achieved non-attachment, self-mastery and
freedom from desire through renunciation, he reaches union with Brahman, who is
beyond all action. (18.49)
Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita