# Bhagavad Gita 18.51

**Canonical reference:** `gita.18.51`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

बुद्ध्या विशुद्धया युक्तो धृत्यात्मानं नियम्य च।
शब्दादीन्विषयांस्त्यक्त्वा रागद्वेषौ व्युदस्य च ॥

## IAST

buddhyā viśuddhayā yukto dhṛtyātmānaṃ niyamya ca
śabdādīnviṣayāṃstyaktvā rāgadveṣau vyudasya ca

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

A man possessed of a pure understanding, controlling his self by courage, discarding sound and other objects of sense, casting off affection and aversion who frequents clean places

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