Shankaracharya's commentary, trans. Alladi Mahadeva Sastry (1897)
[1]He attains peace into whom all desires enter, as waters flow into the sea which, though ever being filled, remains unmoved — not he who hankers after objects of desire.
BG 2.70
आपूर्यमाणमचलप्रतिष्ठं समुद्रमापः प्रविशन्ति यद्वत् । तद्वत्कामा यं प्रविशन्ति सर्वे स शान्तिमाप्नोति न कामकामी ॥
āpūryamāṇam acala-pratiṣṭhaṃ samudram āpaḥ praviśanti yadvat | tadvat kāmā yaṃ praviśanti sarve sa śāntim āpnoti na kāma-kāmī ||
"All desires pour into the sage like rivers into the ocean — the ocean stays unmoved. That is peace."
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Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]He attains peace into whom all desires enter as waters enter the ocean, which, though ever being filled, is ever motionless — not he who desires objects of desire.
William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)
[6]That man in whom all desires flow and are absorbed, even as the rivers flow into the ocean which is full but remains unmoved — that man attains to peace, and not he who cherishes desire.
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]He who is the ocean — all the streams Poured into it but can nowise disturb — Whose peace, though all desires flow in, Comes not from craving: such a one hath peace.
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]He attains peace into whom all desires flow just as the ocean, which is ever full on all sides, receives the waters — not he who is desirous of desires.