Self-controlled: Renunciation and Freedom

Mentally renouncing all actions, the self-controlled soul enjoys bliss in this body, the city of the nine gates, neither doing anything themselves nor causing anything to be done.

— Shri Purohit Swami (1935), public domain

This draft lesson introduces Bhagavad Gita 5.13 through stronger key ideas from the verse: self-controlled, by the mind, having renounced. In the context of Renunciation and Freedom, learners connect Sanskrit vocabulary to the verse's teaching before applying it to daily choices. Review this draft before publication.