Chapter 2 - Verse 55

When a man completely abandons all the various desires that enter the heart and is satisfied with the True Innermost Self (Pratyagātman) in himself, without longing for external possessions, averse to everything else because of his acquisition of the immortal nectar,—i.e., his realisation of the Supreme Truth,—then he is said to be a wise man (vidvan), one whose knowledge arising from the discrimination of the Self and the not-Self has been steadied. [If, on his abandoning of all desires, nothing should be found to cause satisfaction while the cause of the embodied state still operates, it would follow that his behaviour would be like that of a mad man or a maniac. Hence the words ‘satisfied in the Self’ etc.] That is to say, he who has abandoned all desires connected with progeny, possessions and the world, who has renounced (all works), who delights in the Self and plays with the Self,—he is the man whose knowledge is steady.