Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 5: Renunciation in Action

Bhagavad Gita 5.26

kāmakrodhaviyuktānāṃ yatīnāṃ yatacetasām | abhito brahmanirvāṇaṃ vartate viditātmanām ||

For those striving ones who are free from desire and anger, whose minds are controlled and who know the self, liberation in Brahman lies all around them.

Modern context

The key word is abhitah, 'on every side'. For those who are free of craving and anger, liberation is no far-off goal. It surrounds them, in life and after it, wherever they are. Peace is not a place one travels to. When the two great disturbers are quiet, peace turns out to be the ordinary condition of things, as present in a market or an office as in a monastery.