sattvam -- the mode of goodness; ca -- also; abhijayet -- he should conquer; yuktah -- engaged in devotional service; nairapekshyena -- by being indifferent to the modes; santa -- pacified; dhih -- whose intelligence; sampadyate -- he achieves; gunaih -- from the modes of nature; muktah -- liberated; jivah -- the living entity; jivam -- the cause of his being conditioned; vihaya -- giving up; mam -- Me.

Then, being fixed in devotional service, the sage should also conquer the material mode of goodness by indifference toward the modes. Thus pacified within his mind, the spirit soul, freed from the modes of nature, gives up the very cause of his conditioned life and attains Me.