Chapter 2 · Knowledge of the Self
Bhagavad Gita 2.15
The one they do not shake is fit for immortality.
Shri Bhagavan
यं हि न व्यथयन्त्येते पुरुषं पुरुषर्षभ ।
समदुःखसुखं धीरं सोऽमृतत्वाय कल्पते ॥
yaṁ hi na vyathayantyete puruṣaṁ puruṣarṣabha / samaduḥkhasukhaṁ dhīraṁ so’mṛtatvāya kalpate
Best of men, the one whom these do not trouble — steady, the same in pain and in pleasure — he is fit for what does not die.
हिंदी · हे पुरुषश्रेष्ठ, जिस धीर पुरुष को ये विचलित नहीं करते, जो सुख और दुःख में एक समान है, वही अमृतत्व के योग्य होता है।
What it means
The one they do not shake is fit for immortality.
The wise person whom these do not disturb, who is the same in pain and pleasure, becomes fit for the deathless state.
This is the Trust’s own reading, written for this site. The verse above it is the text.
Verses that share its vocabulary
Near it in the text’s own words.
- 13.20Prakriti is said to be the cause where the body, its instruments and the doing of action are concerned. Purusha is said to be the cause where pleasure and pain are experienced.
- 2.14Kaunteya, contact with things brings cold and heat, pleasure and pain. They come and they go. They do not last. Bear them, Bharata.
- 2.38Treat pleasure and pain alike, gain and loss alike, victory and defeat alike, and then prepare for the fight. That way you take on no wrong.
- 2.56Untroubled in sorrow, without craving in happiness, free of longing, fear and anger — such a person is called a sage of steady understanding.
- 6.7In one who has mastered himself and is at peace, the highest self stays settled — through cold and heat, pleasure and pain, honour and dishonour alike.
- 6.32The one who measures everything by himself, Arjuna, and sees the pleasure and pain of others as he sees his own, is held to be the highest yogi.
Chosen by shared uncommon vocabulary, weighted so that a rare word counts for far more than a common one. A reading aid, not a claim that these verses mean the same thing.