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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.25.34
niḥsańgo māḿ bhajed vidvān
apramatto jitendriyaḥ
rajas tamaś cābhijayet
sattva-saḿsevayā muniḥ
SYNONYMS
niḥsańgaḥ — free from material association; mām — Me; bhajet — should worship; vidvān — a wise person; apramattaḥ — not bewildered; jita-indriyaḥ — having subdued his senses; rajaḥ — the mode of passion; tamaḥ — the mode of ignorance; ca — and; abhijayet — he should conquer; sattva-saḿsevayā — by taking to the mode of goodness; muniḥ — the sage.
TRANSLATION
A wise sage, free from all material association and unbewildered, should subdue his senses and worship Me. He should conquer the modes of passion and ignorance by engaging himself only with things in the mode of goodness.
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