Sanskrit
वीतरागभयक्रोधा मन्मया मामुपाश्रिताः । बहवो ज्ञानतपसा पूता मद्भावमागताः ॥
vīta-rāga-bhaya-krodhā man-mayā mām upāśritāḥ bahavo jñāna-tapasā pūtā mad-bhāvam āgatāḥ
Translation
Freed from passion, fear and anger, filled with Me, taking refuge in Me, purified in the fire of wisdom, many have entered into My Being.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
A general statement of who has reached the liberation described in verse 9 historically — many, not a select few — marked by three things they’ve dropped (passion, fear, anger) and one thing that has purified them: the “fire of wisdom.” That image of a purifying inner fire recurs at verses 19, 27, and 37, and by the time it reappears explicitly named the fire of knowledge, the chapter has made it one of its central metaphors.