Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Verse 58
भगवद् गीता अध्याय 2 श्लोक 58

यदा संहरते चायं कूर्मोऽङ्गानीव सर्वशः।
इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेभ्यस्तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता।।2.58।।



English Translation - Dr. S. Sankaranarayan
2.58. When he withdraws all his sense-organs from sense-objects,  just as a tortoise does all of its own limbs,  then he is declared to be a man-of-stabilized-intellect.


English Translation of Commentary  - Dr. S. Sankaranarayan
2.58 Yada samharate etc.  the nomenclature is not an expression having a composite of both the forces of etymological and traditional meanings, like the word pankaja a lotus.  But it has only the etymological force like the word pacaka a cook.  Whenever he (the sage) withdraws just in his own self-just as a tortoise keeps its limbs in its bossom-from the sense-objects i.e., warding off from the sense-objects, then and then [only] he is man-of-stabilized-intellect.

Or   [the passage may mean :]  Whenever he withdraws, within his own Self, [all], beginning from the sense-objects upto sense-organs i.e., when he approprites in his own Self all in the form of sense-objects and sense-organs.	
 But, how is it that the nomenclature a man-of-stabilized-intellect  does not hold good in the case of an ascetic ?  It is answered-


Transliteration Bhagavad Gita 2.58Yadaa samharate chaayam kurmo’ngaaneeva sarvashah;
Indriyaaneendriyaarthebhyas tasya prajnaa pratishthitaa.


Word Meanings Bhagavad Gita 2.58yadā—when; sanharate—withdraw; cha—and; ayam—this; kūrmaḥ—tortoise; aṅgāni—limbs; iva—as; sarvaśhaḥ—fully; indriyāṇi—senses; indriya-arthebhyaḥ—from the sense objects; tasya—his; prajñā—divine wisdom; pratiṣhṭhitā—fixed in