BRS 2.5.17

BRS 2.5.17

Verse Text

tatha coktam – vihāya viṣayonmukhyaṁ nijānanda-sthitir yataḥ ātmanaḥ kathyate so ’tra svabhāvaḥ śama ity asau ||17||

Translation

It is said by the ancients: That nature by which a person is situated in the bliss of his own ātmā after giving up pursuit of material objects is called śama.