Shloka 51
भीष्मविक्रमदर्शनं तथा क्रौञ्चारुणव्यूहविधानम् | Bhīṣma’s Ascendancy and the Organization of the Krauñcāruṇa Formation
बुद्धया विशुद्धया युक्तो धृत्या55त्मानं नियम्य च | शब्दादीन् विषयांस्त्यकत्वा रागद्वेषौ व्युदस्य च
arjuna uvāca | buddhyā viśuddhayā yukto dhṛtyātmānaṃ niyamya ca | śabdādīn viṣayāṃs tyaktvā rāgadveṣau vyudasya ca ||
विशुद्ध बुद्धि से युक्त होकर और धैर्य से अपने को संयमित करके, शब्दादि विषयों का त्याग कर तथा राग-द्वेष को दूर करके (मनुष्य को आचरण करना चाहिए)।
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that spiritual and ethical steadiness begins with inner governance: purify discernment (buddhi), apply fortitude (dhṛti) to restrain the self, renounce fixation on sense-objects, and uproot the reactive pair of attachment and aversion (rāga–dveṣa).
Arjuna is speaking and articulating a discipline-oriented ideal: the qualities and practices by which a person becomes fit for higher realization—self-restraint, withdrawal from sensory compulsions, and freedom from emotional partialities.