# Bhagavad Gita 2.59

**Canonical reference:** `gita.2.59`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

विषया विनिवर्तन्ते निराहारस्य देहिनः।
रसवर्जं रसोऽप्यस्य परं दृष्ट्वा निवर्तते ॥

## IAST

viṣayā vinivartante nirāhārasya dehinaḥ
rasavarjaṃ raso.apyasya paraṃ dṛṣṭvā nivartate

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Objects of sense draw back from a person who is abstinent not so the taste (for those objects). But even the taste departs from him, when he has seen the Supreme.

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