Arjuna asks
BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ · 2.54How does a steady person speak? How do they sit, how do they walk?
Praśna No. 4
Kṛṣṇa answers
BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ · 2.55“When a man renounces all the desires of the mind and is content with himself…”
Calm isn't a posture. It's being content.
Arjuna asks what a steady mind looks like from the outside: how it talks, sits, walks. Kṛṣṇa answers from the inside. Steadiness is not a way of sitting. It is being content within.
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The verses
Arjuna asks
BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ · 2.54अर्जुन उवाच
स्थितप्रज्ञस्य का भाषा समाधिस्थस्य केशव।
स्थितधीः किं प्रभाषेत किमासीत व्रजेत किम्।।
arjuna uvāca sthita-prajñasya kā bhāṣā samādhi-sthasya keśava sthita-dhīḥ kiṁ prabhāṣeta kim āsīta vrajeta kim
Arjuna said, "What is the mode of speech of one who is of firm wisdom, established in the control of the mind? What does a man of firm wisdom speak, O Krsna? How does he sit? How does he move?"
Kṛṣṇa answers
BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ · 2.55श्री भगवानुवाच
प्रजहाति यदा कामान् सर्वान् पार्थ मनोगतान्।
आत्मन्येवात्मना तुष्टः स्थितप्रज्ञस्तदोच्यते।।
śrī bhagavān uvāca prajahāti yadā kāmān sarvān pārtha mano-gatān ātmany-evātmanā tuṣṭaḥ sthita-prajñas tadocyate
The Lord said, "When a man renounces all the desires of the mind and is content with himself, then he is said to possess firm wisdom."
The count
2.54 is verse 101 of 700, and verse 54 of 72 in chapter 2.
Arjuna asks at 2.54 and Kṛṣṇa answers in the very next verse, 2.55.
Sthita-prajña (firm wisdom), in any form, appears in 2 verses of the 700: 2.54 and 2.55.
Counted by Vāṇi on the 700-verse text at getvani.app/gita.
Going deeper
2.54 is Arjuna's question, and it is very concrete: how does someone of firm wisdom speak, sit and move? He is asking about outward signs. The verse before, 2.53, has just said that when the mind stands unshaken in concentration, the vision of the Self comes. Kṛṣṇa's answer in 2.55 goes inward at once. When a person gives up every desire of the mind and is content in the self, that person is called a sage of firm wisdom. Then 2.56 adds what this looks like in experience: a mind not shaken by pain, no craving for pleasure, and freedom from desire, fear and anger. None of these verses describes a posture. The Gītā answers a question about appearance with a description of what is steady underneath. See chapter 2 and what the Gītā says about knowledge.