Sanskrit
स्थितप्रज्ञस्य का भाषा समाधिस्थस्य केशव । स्थितधीः किं प्रभाषेत किमासीत व्रजेत किम् ॥
sthitaprajñasya kā bhāṣā samādhisthasya keśava sthitadhīḥ kiṃ prabhāṣeta kim āsīta vrajeta kim
Translation
What the mark, of him who is stable of mind, steadfast in contemplation, O Keshava? How doth the stable-minded talk, how doth he sit, how walk?
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The voice shifts here — this is Arjuna speaking for the first time since verse 10, and his question is the right one: not “is this true?” but “what does it look like in an actual person?” Krishna’s abstract definition of yoga in verse 53 gets cashed out starting with the very next verse, in concrete behavioral terms — how the stable-minded person speaks, sits, and moves through the world.
Concepts