Verse 5

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In plain words

Free from pride and delusion, victorious over the fault of attachment, ever abiding in Adhyātma, with desires withdrawn and free from the pairs called pleasure and pain, the undeluded reach that imperishable state.

Word for word

Free from pride [and] delusion, with the fault of attachment conquered, ever intent on adhyātma, with desires turned away, released from the pairs called pleasure [and] pain, the undeluded reach that imperishable state.

Sri Satchitananda Sai
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Bhagavadgītābhāṣyam

कथम्भूताः तत् पदं गच्छन्तीति, उच्यते —

निर्मानमोहाः मानश्च मोहश्च मानमोहौ, तौ निर्गतौ येभ्यः ते निर्मानमोहाः मानमोहवर्जिताः । जितसङ्गदोषाः सङ्ग एव दोषः सङ्गदोषः, जितः सङ्गदोषः यैः ते जितसङ्गदोषाः । अध्यात्मनित्याः परमात्मस्वरूपालोचननित्याः तत्पराः । विनिवृत्तकामाः विशेषतो निर्लेपेन निवृत्ताः कामाः येषां ते विनिवृत्तकामाः यतयः संन्यासिनः द्वन्द्वैः प्रियाप्रियादिभिः विमुक्ताः सुखदुःखसंज्ञैः परित्यक्ताः गच्छन्ति अमूढाः मोहवर्जिताः पदम् अव्ययं तत् यथोक्तम् ॥ ५ ॥

In plain words

And who exactly are the ones who reach that state? Here is the answer —

'Free from pride and delusion' means: pride and delusion have simply left those in whom they once lived. That's what makes them free of both. 'Whose fault of attachment is conquered' means: attachment itself is the fault here, and these are people who have simply overcome it. 'Ever intent on the Self' means constantly absorbed in contemplating the nature of the Supreme Self, wholly devoted to that alone. 'Whose desires have completely ceased' means their desires have died away entirely, without a trace left behind — these are ascetics, renunciates. 'Freed from the dualities called pleasure and pain' means exactly that: no longer pulled by pleasant and unpleasant, no longer caught between them. Such people go, free of all delusion, to that same imperishable state already described.

Close to the Sanskrit

Of what nature are they who go to that state? — thus it is [now] stated —

'Free from pride and delusion': pride and delusion are māna and moha; those two are gone from whom — they are 'free from pride and delusion', [i.e.] devoid of pride and delusion. 'Whose fault of attachment is conquered': attachment itself is the fault, [called] the fault of attachment; this fault is conquered by whom — they are 'those who have conquered the fault of attachment'. 'Ever intent on the Self': ever engaged in contemplation of the nature of the Supreme Self, devoted to that. 'Whose desires have completely ceased': whose desires have ceased especially, [i.e.] without residue — those are 'ones whose desires have completely ceased', ascetics, renunciates; 'freed by the dualities known as pleasure and pain', [i.e.] abandoned by the dualities such as the pleasant and unpleasant — they go, undeluded, [i.e.] devoid of delusion, to that imperishable state, as already described.