The Sthitaprajna or Perfect Sage

according to the Hindus
Characteristics of the Perfect Sage

Arjuna said:

(54) What is the description of the man who has this firmly founded wisdom, whose being is steadfast in spirit, O Krishna? How should the man of settled intelligence speak, how should he sit, how should he walk?

The Blessed Lord (Krishna) said

(55) When a man puts away all the desires of his mind, O Arjuna, and when his spirit is content in itself, then is he called stable in intelligence.
(56) He whose mind is untroubled in the midst of sorrows and is free from eager desire amid pleasures, he from whom passion, fear, and rage have passed away, he is called a sage of settled intelligence.
(57) He who is without affection on any side, who does not rejoice or loathe as he obtains good or evil, his intelligence is firmly set (in wisdom).
(58) He who draws away the senses from the objects of sense on every side as a tortoise draws in his limbs (into the shell), his intelligence is firmly set (in wisdom).
(59) The objects of sense turn away from the embodied soul who abstains from feeding on them but the taste for them remains. Even the taste turns away when the Supreme is seen.
(60) Even though a man may ever strive (for perfection) and be ever so discerning, O Arjuna, his impetuous senses will carry off his mind by force.
(61) Having brought all (the senses) under control, he should remain firm in yoga intent on Me; for he, whose senses are under control, his intelligence is firmly set.
(62) When a man dwells in his mind on the objects of sense, attachment to them is produced. From attachment springs desire and from desire comes anger.
(63) From anger arises bewilderment, from bewildermeant loss of memory; and from loss of memory, the destruction of intelligence and from the destruction of intelligence he perishes.
(64) But a man of disciplined mind, who moves among the objects of sense, with the senses under control and free from attachment and aversion, he attains purity of spirit.
(65) And in that purity of spirit, there is produced for him an end of all sorrows; the intelligence of such a man of pure spirit is soon established (in the peace of the self).
(66) For the uncontrolled, there is no intelligence; nor for the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration and for him without concentration, there is no peace and for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness?
(67) When the mind runs after the roving senses, it carries away the understanding, even as a wind carries away a ship on the waters.
(68) Therefore, O Arjuna, he whose senses are all withdrawn from their objects his intelligence is firmly set.
(69) What is night for all beings is the time of waking for the disciplined soul; and what is the time of waking for all beings is night for the sage who sees (or the sage of vision).
(70) He unto whom all desires enter as waters into the sea, which, though ever being filled is ever motionless, attains to peace and not he who hugs his desires.
(71) He who abandons all desires and acts free from longing, without any desires of mineness or egotism, he attains to peace.
(72) This is the divine state, O Arjuna, having attained thereto, one is (not again) bewildered; fixed in that state even at the end (at the hour of death) one can attain to the bliss of God. ~ Meister Eckhart