The Stable Mind Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

What is stable mind? Krishna tells Arjuna:
He who exhausts all his worldly desires,
Who moves away from worldly attachments,
Egoism and thirst for worldly enjoyment,
Who is undisturbed from pleasure or pain
Who neither rejoices nor abhors things
That are auspicious or inauspicious,
Who withdraws his senses from their objects
As a tortoise does its limbs from the harms
And who contemplates upon the Supreme
Shall get a stable mind to realize God.

From attachment arises desire;
From desire arises anger;
From anger results infatuation;
From infatuation results confusion;
From confusion comes loss of reason;
From loss of reason, one goes to ruin.
The more you detach the more you are cool
And the more you are greedless and harmless.
15.03.2023
Based on the later part of chapter II of Gita.
Similar view of Tamil Saint Thiruvalluvar:

யாதனின் யாதனின் நீங்கியான் நோதல்
அதனின் அதனின் அலன்

From what from what a man is free 341
From that, from that his torments flee.
(Thirukkural, the Tamils' scripture)