Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 6: The Path of Meditation

Bhagavad Gita 6.8

jñānavijñānatṛptātmā kūṭastho vijitendriyaḥ | yukta ityucyate yogī samaloṣṭāśmakāñcanaḥ ||

A yogi who is satisfied by knowledge and realization, unshaken, with senses conquered, and for whom a clod of earth, a stone, and gold are the same, is said to be disciplined.

Modern context

Kutastha literally means 'standing like an anvil'. Hammer blows fall on an anvil all day, and it shapes what is struck on it without being changed itself. That is the picture of a person who is satisfied by what they understand and what they have lived. Such a person treats a lump of earth, a stone and a bar of gold the same. They can still tell them apart. What has gone is the craving that makes gold glitter and earth seem worthless.