Move through the world without being owned by it.

This verse makes an important correction to any misinterpretation of the previous teachings. Krishna is not prescribing total withdrawal from the world or an ascetic avoidance of all sense experience. The sthitaprajna does not live in a cave cut off from sensory life.

Rather, they move freely among sense objects ('viṣayān caran') — they engage with the world fully — but do so with senses governed by the Self rather than driven by the ego's habitual likes and dislikes.

The key phrase is 'rāga-dveṣa-viyuktaiḥ' — freed from raga (attraction) and dvesha (aversion). These two are the twin distorters of perception and action. When we experience raga, we rush toward objects with craving and cling to them desperately. When we experience dvesha, we recoil, resist, and judge. The wise person, by contrast, encounters the world with a quality of clear, open attention that is neither grasping nor rejecting.

The fruit of this mode of being is 'prasāda' — a word that carries multiple resonances: grace, clarity, serenity, and even a brightness or cheerfulness of countenance. Prasāda is not achieved through technique alone but flows naturally when inner turbulence subsides. It is simultaneously the hallmark of divine grace received and the natural radiance of a balanced and liberated consciousness.

This verse thus reveals that genuine renunciation is not absence from the world but freedom within it.